percase

English

Etymology

Middle English per cas. See parcase.

Adverb

percase (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) perhaps; perchance
    • Francis Bacon
      virtuous man will be virtuous in solitudine, and not only in theatro, though percase it will be more strong by glory and same, as an heat which is doubled by reflexion.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 percase in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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