grace Noun
(not countable) Elegant movement; poise or balance.
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(not countable) Charming, pleasing qualities.
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* 1699 , , 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.
* Blair
- 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.
(not countable, theology) Free and undeserved favour, especially of God. Unmerited divine assistance given to humans for their regeneration or sanctification.
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(not countable, theology) Divine assistance in resisting sin.
(countable) Short prayer of thanks before or after a meal.
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(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.
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(card games) A special move in a solitaire or patience game that is normally against the rules.
Related terms
* begrace
* good graces
* graceful
* graceless
* gracious
* grateful
* gratitude
* say grace
* ungrace
Verb
( grac)
To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify.
- He graced the room with his presence.
- He graced the room by simply being there.
- His portrait graced a landing on the stairway.
* (rfdate) (Alexander Pope)
- Great Jove and Phoebus graced his noble line.
* (rfdate) (Shakespeare)
- We are graced with wreaths of victory.
To dignify or raise by an act of favour; to honour.
* (rfdate) (Knolles)
- He might, at his pleasure, grace or disgrace whom he would in court.
To supply with heavenly grace.
- (Bishop Hall)
(music) To add grace notes, cadenzas, etc., to.
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graze English
Noun
( en noun)
The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing.
A light abrasion; a slight scratch.
Verb
( graz)
To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
* Jonathan Swift
- a field or two to graze his cows
* 1999:' Although it is perfectly good meadowland, none of the villagers has ever '''grazed animals on the meadow on the other side of the wall. — ''Stardust , Neil Gaiman, page 4 (2001 Perennial Edition).
(ambitransitive) To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse.
- Cattle graze in the meadows.
* Alexander Pope
- The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant mead.
* 1993 , John Montroll, Origami Inside-Out (page 41)
- The bird [Canada goose] is more often found on land than other waterfowl because of its love for seeds and grains. The long neck is well adapted for grazing .
To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.
* Shakespeare
- when Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep
To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing.
- the bullet grazed the wall
* 1851 ,
- But in that gale, the port, the land, is that ship’s direst jeopardy; she must fly all hospitality; one touch of land, though it but graze the keel, would make her shudder through and through.
To cause a slight wound to; to scratch.
- to graze one's knee
To yield grass for grazing.
* Francis Bacon
- The sewers must be kept so as the water may not stay too long in the spring; for then the ground continueth the wet, whereby it will never graze to purpose that year.
Derived terms
* overgraze
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