manace

See also: manacé

English

Noun

manace (countable and uncountable, plural manaces)

1. Obsolete form of menace.

Verb

1. Obsolete form of menace.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “manace”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• mancae

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Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *minācia (“threat”), from Latin mināx (“threatening”), mināciae (“threats”).

Noun

manace oblique singular, f (oblique plural manaces, nominative singular manace, nominative plural manaces)

1. threat (verbal or written warning)
   • circa 1155, Wace, Le Roman de Brut:

     Elfroi oï que il venoit
     Et les manaces qu'il faisoit

     Elfroi heard he was coming
     and the threats that he was making

2. threat (danger; hazard)

Descendants

• → English: menace (noun)
• French: menace
• Norman: m'niche

Verb

manace

1. first-person singular present indicative of manacer
2. third-person singular present indicative of manacer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of manacer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of manacer
5. second-person singular imperative of manacer