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单词 appeach
释义

appeach

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman apescher, rare variant of Old French empescher, from Latin impedicō.

Verb

appeach (third-person singular simple present appeaches, present participle appeaching, simple past and past participle appeached)

  1. (archaic) To charge (someone) with a crime; to impeach. [15th–17th c.]
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “vij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book X:
      Thenne was Kynge Marke wonderly wrothe / and wold haue slayne Amant / but he and the two squyers held them to gyders / and sette nought by his malyce / whanne Kynge marke sawe he myght not be reuenged on them / he said thus vnto the Knyght Amant / wete thou wel / and thou apoeche me of treason / I shalle therof defende me afore Kynge Arthur
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    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. [], London: [] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
      For when Cymochles saw the fowle reproch, / Which them appeached, prickt with guilty shame, / And inward griefe, he fiercely gan approch [].
    • 1958, T. H. White, The Once and Future King, New York: Berkley Publishing, Book 4, Chapter 5, p. 557,
      [] When the riches are equal, we might say that the luckier side wins, as if by tossing a coin. Now, are you two sure, if you did appeach Queen Guenever of treason, that your side would be the luckier one?”
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