manace
See also: manacé
English
Verb
manace (third-person singular simple present manaces, present participle manacing, simple past and past participle manaced)
- Obsolete form of menace.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 manace in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Old French
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *minācia (“threat”), from Latin mināx (“threatening”), mināciae (“threats”).
Noun
manace f (oblique plural manaces, nominative singular manace, nominative plural manaces)
- threat (verbal or written warning)
- circa 1155, Wace, Le Roman de Brut:
- Elfroi oï que il venoit
Et les manaces qu'il faisoit- Elfroi heard he was coming
and the threats that he was making
- Elfroi heard he was coming
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- threat (danger; hazard)
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