gracen

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.

Anagrams

• Cregan

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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

Conjugation of gracen (weak)

infinitive	(to) gracen
indicative	present	past
1st person singular	grace	gracede
2nd person singular	gracest	gracedest
3rd person singular	graceth, graceþ	gracede
plural	gracen	graceden
subjunctive	present	past
singular	grace	gracede
plural	gracen	graceden
imperative	present
singular	grace
plural	graceth, graceþ
participle	present	past
	gracende, gracinge	graced, ygraced

Descendants

• English: grace

References

• “grācen (v.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-14.