chace

See also: Chace

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:
  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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

cache

Old French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtʃa.tsə/

Noun

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

hunt (action of hunting)
- circa 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

English: chace (borrowed)
French: chasse

Verb

chace

first-person singular present indicative of chacer
third-person singular present indicative of chacer
first-person singular present subjunctive of chacer
third-person singular present subjunctive of chacer
Second-person singular present imperative of chacer

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