gracen

English

Etymology

From grace +‎ -en.

Verb

gracen (third-person singular simple present gracens, present participle gracening, simple past and past participle gracened)

1. (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

• Cregan

Middle English

Etymology

From Old French graciier, from grace; equivalent to grace +‎ -en (“infinitival ending”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡraːsən/

Verb

gracen

1. (rare) To acknowledge; to give thanks.
2. (rare) To bestow a boon upon.

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

Noun

gracen

1. definite singular of grace