appeach

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

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

1. (obsolete) To charge (someone) with a crime; to impeach. [15^th-17^thc.]
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter 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 […].