enhauncen

• anhansy, anhaunse, anhaunsen, enhance, enhansen, enhaunce, enhaunse, enhaunsyn, enhawnce, enhawse, in-hawnse

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman enhauncer, from Vulgar Latin *inaltiāre. The second /n/ is an unetymological excrescence.

• IPA^(key): /ɛnˈhau̯nsən/, /ɛnˈhansən/

enhauncen (third-person singular simple present enhaunceth, present participle enhauncende, enhauncynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle enhaunced)

1. To lift, heighten, or raise up:
   1. (rare) To install a column or other vertical object.
   2. (rare) To heighten ground or floor.
2. To better or improve someone; to make someone better:
   1. To commend or laud; to give applause.
   2. To grant a lofty position; to promote or honour.
   3. To cause to become (more) wealthy, successful, or powerful.
   4. To cheer up; to make happier or more assured.
   5. To provide with knowledge, wisdom or skill.
3. To feel (excessively) prideful or vain; to have excessive pride.
4. (rare) To instill pride or vanity; to make vain.
5. (rare) To make a (source of sound) louder or more prominent.
6. (rare) To become or cause to become more expensive.
7. (rare) To become wealthy or rich.
8. (rare, astrology) To be influential (of a planet).

• enhaunsynge

• English: enhance

• “enhauncen, -ien, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-08-12.