Appeach

verb

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To charge (someone) with a crime; to impeach. archaic

    "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"

Etymology

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

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