inchase
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editinchase (third-person singular simple present inchases, present participle inchasing, simple past and past participle inchased)
- Archaic form of enchase.
- a. 1722, Matthew Prior, “Nelly’s Picture. A Song”, in H. Bunker Wright, Monroe K. Spears, editors, The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, Second edition, volume I, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1971, page 688:
- Her breath like a rose,
It’s sweets does disclose,
Whenever you ravish a kiss;
Like iv’ry inchas’d,
Her teeth are well plac’d,
An exquisite beauty she is.
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