appeach
To charge (someone) with a crime; to impeach.
Verb
- To charge (someone) with a crime; to impeach.
- 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...
- For when Cymochles saw the fowle reproch, / Which them appeached, prickt with guilty shame, / And inward griefe, he fiercely gan approch[…]. - 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […],...
- 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...
Synonyms: arraign inculpate indict accriminate accuse appeach becry charge criminate have up incriminate
Origin
From Anglo-Norman apescher, rare variant of Old French empescher, from Latin impedicō.