atchieve

present singular third person atchieves · participle present atchieving · participle past atchieved · past atchieved

1. obsoleteObsolete form of achieve.

   [T]here could not be a more cruell Tyrant appointed to atchieve a more abominable enterpriſe.

   1513 (date written), Thomas More, “The Pittifvll Life of King Edward the Fifth”, in The Historie of the Pitifvll Life, and Unfortunate Death of Edward the Fifth, and the then Duke of Yorke His Brother: […], London: […] Thomas Payne for the Company of Stationers, and are to be sold by Mich[ael] Young, […], published 1641, →OCLC, pages 2–3

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   Bid them atchieue me, and then ſell my bones. / Good God, vvhy ſhould they mock good fellovvs thus? / The man that once did ſell the Lions skin, / VVhile the beaſt liued, vvas kild vvith hunting him.

   1599 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Cronicle History of Henry the Fift, […] (First Quarto), London: […] Thomas Creede, for Tho[mas] Millington, and Iohn Busby […], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], signature E2, verso

   Full many Countreyes they did ouerronne, / From the vpriſing to the ſetting Sunne, / And many hard aduentures did atchieue; […]

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 3, pages 391–392

   VVhy ſome are borne great, ſome atchieue greatneſſe, and ſome haue greatneſſe throvvne vpon them.

   c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 275, column 1

   Mon[tano]. But good Leiutenant, is your Generall vviu'd? / [Michael] Caſ[sio]. Moſt fortunately, he hath atchieu'd a maide, / That parragons deſcription, and vvild fame: […]

   c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 22

   [U]s hitherto this Corner and ſecret receſſe hath defended, novv the Vttermoſt point of our Land is laid open: and things the leſſe they haue beene vvithin knovvledge, the greater the glorie is to atchieue them.

   1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “Flavius Domitian”, in The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of yͤ Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. […], London: […] William Hall and John Beale, for John Sudbury and George Humble, […], →OCLC, book VI ([The Romans] […]), paragraph 8, page 214, column 1