fease
English
Etymology 1
Back-formation from feasance.
Verb
fease (third-person singular simple present feas, present participle ing, simple past and past participle feased)
- (obsolete) to execute (an action, condition, obligation, etc.)
Etymology 2
From Middle English fesen (“to drive, incite, put into action; frighten, terrify, prosecute, punish”), from Old English fēsan, fȳsan (“to hasten, impel”), from Proto-Germanic *funsijaną (“to make ready”).
Alternative forms
- faise, feaze, feese, feize, phease, pheese, pheeze, vaise, vaze, vease, veass, veese, veze[1] (dialectal)
Verb
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- (transitive, UK, dialectal) To drive; drive away; put to flight; dissipate
- (transitive, UK, dialectal) To cause to swing about
- (intransitive, UK, dialectal) To swing about (in the wind); to flare (as a candle)
- (transitive, UK, dialectal) To disturb; annoy; inconvenience; fret; worry
- (transitive, UK, dialectal) To beat; chastise; also, to humble; harass
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ainsworth to this entry?)
- (intransitive, UK, dialectal) To hurry; pant; run up and down
- (transitive, UK, dialectal) To fetch
- (intransitive, UK, dialectal) To untwist; to unravel, as the end of a rope.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)
References
- ^ Joseph Wright, English Dialect Dictionary (1900)
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