chace
English
editVerb
editchace (third-person singular simple present chaces, present participle chacing, simple past and past participle chaced)
- (obsolete) To chase; to pursue.
- 1807, [Miss Guion], chapter VI, in The Three Germans. Mysteries Exemplified in the Life of Holstein of Lutztein. A German Romance. […], volume I, London: […] J[ames] F[letcher] Hughes, […], →OCLC, page 124:
- The suddenness with which the solemn quiet had been broken in upon, had chaced from his remembrance the horrid phantom;—it now recurred to it, with two-fold force, and a shudder crept all over him.
Noun
editchace (plural chaces)
- (obsolete) A chase.
- 1850, The Prelude, Book I, William Wordsworth, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
- We hiss'd along the polish'd ice, in games / Confederate, imitative of the chace
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “chace”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
editFranco-Provençal
editEtymology
editVerb
editchace f (ORB, broad)
References
editOld French
editEtymology
editDeverbal of chacer.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editchace oblique singular, f (oblique plural chaces, nominative singular chace, nominative plural chaces)
- hunt (action of hunting)
- c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:
- Sire!, fet il, de ceste chace
N'avroiz vos ja ne gré ne grace.- "Sire!" Said he. "Of this hunt
I have neither desire nor want"
- "Sire!" Said he. "Of this hunt
Descendants
editVerb
editchace
- inflection of chacer:
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