appeach
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman apescher, rare variant of empescher, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin impedicō.
Verb
appeach (third-person singular simple present appeaches, present participle appeaching, simple past and past participle appeached)
- (obsolete) To charge (someone) with a crime; to impeach. [15th-17thc.]
- 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
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen, II.viii:
- For when Cymochles saw the fowle reproch, / Which them appeached, prickt with guilty shame, / And inward griefe, he fiercely gan approch […].