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English
Etymology
From grace + -en.
Verb
gracen (third-person singular simple present gracens, present participle gracening, simple past and past participle gracened)
- (transitive, rare) To add grace (to); make graceful; to grace
1941, Saturday Review of Literature, volume 24, page xxii:Be with me in this hour: dread shapes of thee
Apparelled in the lustre not their own —
As buzzard, gracened by the wizardry
Of light, looks all but lovely as the swan —
Shall not appall.
1955, Post Wheeler, Hallie Erminie Rives, Dome of Many-coloured Glass, page 3:It marched to music. It clothed itself in a conventional beauty that the world saw nowhere else. Our story, to gracen it, should have that charm and beauty too.
Anagrams
Middle English
Etymology
From Old French graciier, from grace; equivalent to grace + -en (“infinitival ending”).
Pronunciation
Verb
gracen
- (rare) To acknowledge; to give thanks.
- (rare) To bestow a boon upon.
Conjugation
1 Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
Descendants
References
Swedish
Noun
gracen
- definite singular of grace