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(Tasch,) Tash, v. P.p. also tasschitt, tached. [ME and e.m.E. tassed p.p. (Gower), tatchyd p.p. (Trevisa), tached p.p. (1502), tache (1596), OF tachier.] tr. a. lit. To stain, tarnish. b. fig. To besmirch, stigmatise. —a. 1671 Red Bk. Grandtully II 205.
One of the three apprehended had the crown, but it was much tashed and spoylt —b. 1601 Cal. Sc. P. XIII 876.
[Lest through the ingratitude of few I should be] tasschitt [with the same vice] 1639 Acts V 612/2.
His vnspotted reputatioune, quhilk now is most vnjustlie tashed by some vntrew aspersiounes a1649 Drummond Wks. (1711) 104.
At the least to leave him suspected and tached with this treason 1685 M. P. Brown Suppl. Decis. III 538.
Tolquhon had offered to tash his reputation, by venting, that he had fraudulently given back a bond 1686 M. P. Brown Suppl. Decis. III 592.
This was an vnnatural action, to tash his father's memory with a design of cheating