chace

chace (third-person singular simple present chaces, present participle chacing, simple past and past participle chaced)

1. Obsolete spelling of chase.
   • 1807, [Miss Guion], chapter VI, in The Three Germans. Mysteries Exemplified in the Life of Holstein of Lutztein. A German Romance. […], volume I, London: […] J[ames] F[letcher] Hughes, […], →OCLC, page 124:

     The suddenness with which the solemn quiet had been broken in upon, had chaced from his remembrance the horrid phantom;—it now recurred to it, with two-fold force, and a shudder crept all over him.

chace (plural chaces)

1. Obsolete spelling of chase.
   • 1850, The Prelude, Book I, William Wordsworth, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     We hiss'd along the polish'd ice, in games / Confederate, imitative of the chace

• “chace”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• cache

Deverbal from chaciér.

chace f (ORB, broad)

1. hunt, pursuit

• chasse in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• chace in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Deverbal of chacer.

• (classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtʃatsə/
• (late) IPA^(key): /ˈʃasə/

chace oblique singular, f (oblique plural chaces, nominative singular chace, nominative plural chaces)

1. hunt (action of hunting)
   • c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     Sire!, fet il, de ceste chace
     N'avroiz vos ja ne gré ne grace.

     "Sire!" Said he. "Of this hunt
     I have neither desire nor want"

• Bourguignon: chaisse
• Champenois: chaisse (Troyen), tasse (Rémois)
• French: chasse
• → English: chace, chase

chace

1. inflection of chacer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular present imperative