Encases vs Enchases - What's the difference?
encases | enchases |
(encase)
To enclose, as in a case.
*1918 , Wilhelm Muehlon, The vandal of Europe :
(enchase)
To set (a gemstone etc.) into.
(label) To be a setting for.
*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queen) , I.xii:
*:My ragged rimes are all too rude and bace, / Her heauenly lineaments for to enchace .
To decorate with jewels, or with inlaid ornament.
To cut or carve, as with a weapon.
*1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), XII, lvii:
*:They took their swords again, and each enchas'd / Deep wounds in the soft flesh of his strong foe.
As verbs the difference between encases and enchases
is that encases is (encase) while enchases is (enchase).encases
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(head)Anagrams
* * *encase
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Alternative forms
* incaseVerb
(encas)- They always appeared to me like asses who gladly incase themselves in lions' skins and cheer themselves with the idea that all the world about them consists also of similarly disguised asses.