aggrace
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin aggratiare, from ad (“to”) and gratia (“grace”).
Pronunciation
editVerb
editaggrace (third-person singular simple present aggraces, present participle aggracing, simple past and past participle aggraced)
- (transitive, obsolete) To favour; to grace.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 18:
- And heare the wisedome of her words diuine. / She graunted, and that knight so much agraste, / That she him taught celestiall discipline, / And opened his dull eyes, that light mote in them shine
Noun
editaggrace (uncountable)
- (obsolete) grace; favour
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 56:
- So goodly purpose they together fond, / Of kindnesse and of curteous aggrace;