percase
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English per cas. See parcase.
Adverb edit
percase (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Perchance; perhaps.
- 1597, Francis [Bacon], “Of the Colours of Good and Evill, a Fragment”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland […], published 1632, →OCLC:
- [A] vertuous man vvill be vertuous in ſolitudine, and not onely in theatro, though percaſe it vvill bee more ſtrong by glory and Fame, as an heat vvhich is doubled by reflexion: […]
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “percase”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)