▪ I. † enˈtach, n. Obs. rare—1.
In 4 entecche.
[f. next vb.]
A symptom of an illness.
| c 1350 Will. Palerne 558, I..told him al treuly þe entecches of myn evele. |
▪ II. † enˈtach, enˈtech, v. Obs.
Forms: 4–5 entech, -tecch, -tetch, 5 entatch, (entachch), 5–6 entach.
[a. OF. entachier, entechier, to imbue with any quality, infect (cf. mod.F. enticher to infect), f. en- (see en-1) + tache, teche, spot, mark, contagion, ‘trait’ of character, etc.; perh. ultimately identical with tache, *tac tack: see attach.]
1. trans. To stain, defile; to infect.
| c 1374 Chaucer Boeth. iv. iii. 120 Who so þat euer is entecched and defouled wiþ yuel. c 1450 Lonelich Grail l. 259 Non Of hem Entachched was with non Maner Synne. 1481 Caxton Myrr. iii. x. 156 Alle we abyde entetched and soylled therby [by Adam's sin]. 1483 ― G. de la Tour D iij, And of this manere the moost parte of the world is entatched and ouercome. 1509 Hawes Past. Pleas. (1845) 137 With fervent love and fyry lemes entached. |
2. To imbue with any quality, good or evil. See enteched ppl. a.
3. ? To link together. [? var. attach.] rare—1.
| c 1450 Merlin xviii. 288 Thei were so thikke and so entacched ech amonge other, that mo than a thousand fill in to the river. |
Hence enˈteched ppl. a., imbued with certain qualities or dispositions; only with qualifying advbs. [So OFr. bien, mal entechié.]
| c 1374 Chaucer Troylus v. 832 On of the best enteched creature, That is or shal, while that the world may dure. a 1420 Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 150 A croked hors never the better is entecchede, Althoughe his bridelle glistre of golde and shyne. |