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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

inchase en · VERB

Etymology

From in- + chase.

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, archaic) Archaic form of enchase.
    alt of enchase
    • Her breath like a rose, It’s sweets does disclose, Whenever you ravish a kiss; Like iv’ry inchas’d, Her teeth are well plac’d, An exquisite beauty she is. a. 1722, Matthew Prior, “Nelly’s Picture. A Song”, in H. Bunker Wright, Monroe K. Spears, editors, The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, Second edition, volume I, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1971, page 688:

Forms

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inchases Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
inchased Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
inchased Tense=Past lexicographic
inchasing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic