percase
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English per cas. See parcase.
Adverb
percase (not comparable)
- (obsolete) perhaps; perchance
- Francis Bacon
- virtuous man will be virtuous in solitudine, and not only in theatro, though percase it will be more strong by glory and same, as an heat which is doubled by reflexion.
- Francis Bacon
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “percase”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)