enchase
English
Etymology
From French enchâsser
Verb
enchase (third-person singular simple present enchases, present participle enchasing, simple past and past participle enchased)
- To set (a gemstone etc.) into.
- (figuratively) To be a setting for.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen, I.xii:
- My ragged rimes are all too rude and bace, / Her heauenly lineaments for to enchace.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen, I.xii:
- To decorate with jewels, or with inlaid ornament.
- To cut or carve, as with a weapon.
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XII, lvii:
- They took their swords again, and each enchas'd / Deep wounds in the soft flesh of his strong foe.
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XII, lvii:
Anagrams
- achenes