chace

See also: Chace, chācè, and chácè

English

Verb

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

(obsolete) To chase; to pursue.

Noun

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

cache

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)

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"

Descendants

French: chasse
→ English: chace, chase

Verb

chace

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

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