gracen

English

Etymology

From grace + -en.

Verb

gracen (third-person singular simple present gracens, present participle gracening, simple past and past participle gracened)

  1. (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.

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Middle English

Etymology

From Old French graciier, from grace; equivalent to grace + -en (infinitival ending).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡraːsən/

Verb

gracen

  1. (rare) To acknowledge; to give thanks.
  2. (rare) To bestow a boon upon.

Conjugation

Descendants

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