gracen
English
Verb
gracen (third-person singular simple present gracens, present participle gracening, simple past and past participle gracened)
- (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
Middle English
Etymology
From Old French graciier, from grace; equivalent to grace + -en (“infinitival ending”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡraːsən/
Conjugation
Conjugation of gracen (weak in -ed)
| infinitive | (to) gracen, grace | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | past tense | ||
| 1st-person singular | grace | graced | |
| 2nd-person singular | gracest | gracedest | |
| 3rd-person singular | graceth | graced | |
| subjunctive singular | grace | ||
| imperative singular | — | ||
| plural1 | gracen, grace | graceden, gracede | |
| imperative plural | graceth, grace | — | |
| participles | gracynge, gracende | graced, ygraced | |
1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
Descendants
- English: grace
References
- “grācen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-14.
Swedish
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