scorse
English edit
Etymology edit
Compare Italian scorsa (“a course”), and English discourse.
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Noun edit
scorse
- (obsolete) barter; exchange; trade
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 55:
- And recompenst him with a better scorse.
Verb edit
scorse (third-person singular simple present scorses, present participle scorsing, simple past and past participle scorsed)
- (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To barter or exchange.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- But Paridell sore brused with the blow, / Could not arise, the counterchaunge to scorse […]
- (obsolete) To chase.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Him first from court he to the citties coursed,
And from the citties to the townes him prest,
And from the townes into the countrie forsed
, And from the country back to private farmes he scorsed
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scorse
- third-person singular past historic of scorgere
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scorse
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scorse f
References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 scorse in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)