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Enchafe vs Enchase - What's the difference?

enchafe | enchase |

As verbs the difference between enchafe and enchase

is that enchafe is to make warm, to heat while enchase is to set (a gemstone etc) into.

enchafe

English

Verb

(enchaf)
  • To make warm, to heat.
  • *, Book VII:
  • *:a good knyght, Sir Patryse, which was cosyn unto Sir Mador de la Porte, toke an appyll, for he was enchaffed with hete of wyne.

    • enchase

    English

    Verb

    (enchas)
  • 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.

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