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Grise vs Prise - What's the difference?

grise | prise |

In obsolete terms the difference between grise and prise

is that grise is a step (in a flight of stairs); a degree while prise is an enterprise.

As a verb prise is

to force (open) with a lever; to pry.

grise

English

Etymology 1

Properly the plural of .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A step (in a flight of stairs); a degree.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Every grise of fortune / Is smoothed by that below.

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (a pig)
    • (Webster 1913) ----

    prise

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (verb) prize

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) An enterprise.
    • (Spenser)

    • See also

    * price

    Verb

    (pris)
  • To force (open) with a lever; to pry.
    • 1919: I think he must have been trying to prise open that box yonder when he was attacked. — , The Quest of the Sacred Slipper
    c. 1925: Come, force the gates with crowbars, prise them apart! — Jack Lindsay, translation of Lysistrata
    2004: Most people used pliers, scissors, rubber gloves and knives to try to prise open products. — BBC News

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