chace

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See also: Chace, chācè, and chácè

English

Verb

chace (third-person singular simple present chaces, present participle chacing, simple past and past participle chaced)

  1. (obsolete) To chase; to pursue.
    • 1807, , chapter VI, in The Three Germans. Mysteries Exemplified in the Life of Holstein of Lutztein. A German Romance. , volume I, London: J F 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

chace (plural chaces)

  1. (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Franco-Provençal

Etymology

Deverbal from chaciér.

Verb

chace f (ORB, broad)

  1. hunt, pursuit

References

  • chasse in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
  • chace in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Old French

Etymology

Deverbal of chacer.

Pronunciation

  • (classical) IPA(key): /ˈtʃatsə/
  • (late) IPA(key): /ˈʃasə/

Noun

chace oblique singular, f (oblique plural chaces, nominative singular chace, nominative plural chaces)

  1. hunt (action of hunting)

Descendants

  • Bourguignon: chaisse
  • Champenois: chaisse (Troyen), tasse (Rémois)
  • French: chasse
  • → English: chace, chase

Verb

chace

  1. inflection of chacer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular present imperative
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