enrace

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

en- +‎ race. Compare French enraciner.

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

enrace (third-person singular simple present enraces, present participle enracing, simple past and past participle enraced)

  1. (obsolete) To enroot; to implant.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, An Hymne in Honour of Beautie:
      When she in fleshly feede is eft enraced

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for enrace”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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