enhauncen
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
- anhansy, anhaunse, anhaunsen, enhance, enhansen, enhaunce, enhaunse, enhaunsyn, enhawnce, enhawse, in-hawnse
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman enhauncer, from Vulgar Latin *inaltiāre. The second /n/ is an unetymological excrescence.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
enhauncen (third-person singular simple present enhaunceth, present participle enhauncende, enhauncynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle enhaunced)
- To lift, heighten, or raise up:
- To better or improve someone; to make someone better:
- To feel (excessively) prideful or vain; to have excessive pride.
- (rare) To instill pride or vanity; to make vain.
- (rare) To make a (source of sound) louder or more prominent.
- (rare) To become or cause to become more expensive.
- (rare) To become wealthy or rich.
- (rare, astrology) To be influential (of a planet).
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of enhauncen (weak in -ed)
1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- English: enhance
References edit
- “enhauncen, -ien, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-08-12.