Graced vs Griced - What's the difference?
graced | griced |
(grace)
(not countable) Elegant movement; poise or balance.
(not countable) Charming, pleasing qualities.
* 1699 , ,
* Blair
(not countable, theology) Free and undeserved favour, especially of God. Unmerited divine assistance given to humans for their regeneration or sanctification.
(not countable, theology) Divine assistance in resisting sin.
(countable) Short prayer of thanks before or after a meal.
(finance) An allowance of time granted for a debtor during which he is free of at least part of his normal obligations towards the creditor.
(card games) A special move in a solitaire or patience game that is normally against the rules.
To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify.
* (rfdate) (Alexander Pope)
* (rfdate) (Shakespeare)
To dignify or raise by an act of favour; to honour.
* (rfdate) (Knolles)
To supply with heavenly grace.
(music) To add grace notes, cadenzas, etc., to.
(grice)
A pig, especially a young pig, or its meat; sometimes specifically, a breed of wild pig or boar native to Scotland, now extinct.
*1728 , Robert Lindsay, The history of Scotland, from 21 February, 1436. to March, 1565: in which are contained accounts of many remarkable passages altogether differing from our other historians, and many facts are related, either concealed by some, or omitted by others , publ. Mr. Baskett and Company,
*:Further, there was of meats wheat bread, main-bread and ginge-bread with fleshes, beef, mutton, lamb, veal, venison, goose, grice , capon, coney, cran, swan, partridge, plover, duck, drake, brissel-cock and pawnies, black-cock and muir-fowl, cappercaillies;
*1789 , William Thomson, Mammuth: or, human nature displayed on a grand scale: in a tour with the tinkers, into the inland parts of Africa. By the man in the moon. In two volumes. publ. G. and T. Wilkie,
*:Through a door to one of the galleries, left half open on purpose I was attracted to a dainty hot supper, consisting of stewed mushrooms and the fat paps and ears of very young pigs, or, as they call them, grice .
*2006 , "Extinct island pig spotted again," BBC News , 17 November 2006, [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/north_east/6155172.stm]:
*:A model of the grice - which was the size of a large dog and had tusks - has been created after work by researchers and a taxidermist.
(UK, rail transport, slang) to act as a trainspotter; to partake in the activity or hobby of trainspotting.
*{{quote-newsgroup
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, first = Tony
, last = Polson
, title = Re: Do all UK rail staff get free unlimited Eurostar travel?
, newsgroup = uk.railway
, url = http://groups.google.com/group/uk.railway/msg/226e540c55c506ac
, passage = Many people joined the railways because the 'carrot' of a staff pass was a considerable attraction, whether for family travel or to grice at extremely low cost.
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*{{quote-magazine
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, Month=August
, volume=151
, issue=1252
, page=55
, magazine=The Railway Magazine
, publisher=IPC Business Press
*{{quote-book
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, author=Adam Jacot de Boinod
, title=I Never Knew There Was a Word For It
, chapter=Gricer's Daughter
As verbs the difference between graced and griced
is that graced is (grace) while griced is (grice).graced
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*grace
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(wikipedia grace)Noun
Heads designed for an essay on conversations
- Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace : the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
- I have formerly given the general character of Mr. Addison's style and manner as natural and unaffected, easy and polite, and full of those graces which a flowery imagination diffuses over writing.
Verb
(grac)- He graced the room with his presence.
- He graced the room by simply being there.
- His portrait graced a landing on the stairway.
- Great Jove and Phoebus graced his noble line.
- We are graced with wreaths of victory.
- He might, at his pleasure, grace or disgrace whom he would in court.
- (Bishop Hall)
Anagrams
* ----griced
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Verb
(head)grice
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Etymology 1
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Etymology 2
Verb
(gric)citation, passage=We can also roganise photo charters, large group footplate courses and gricing holidays [...] }}
citation, isbn=9780141028392 , page= , pageurl=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ItYq7wYG634C&pg=PT518&dq=gricing&hl=en , passage=Trainspotters may be mocked by the outside world, but they don't take criticism lying down: the language of gricing is notable for its acidic descriptions of outsiders. }}
