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To utter or pronounce with a particular stress of voice; to make emphatic; as, to emphasize a word or a phrase.

ound with an ornamental casing, as a gem with gold; to encircle; to inclose; to adorn. Enchased with a wanton ivy twine. Spenser. An precious stones, in studs of gold enchased, The shaggy velvet of his buskins graced. Mickle.

One who enchases.

To chasten. [Obs.]

Foolishly hasty. [R.]

The liberty or franchise of having a chase; free chase. Burrill.

To strike aghast; to affright. [Obs.] Ghasted by the noise I made. Full suddenly he fled. Shak.

Fit to make one aghast; dismal. [Obs.] -- Ghast"ful*ly, adv.

The state of being ghastly; a deathlike look.

Like a ghost in appearance; deathlike; pale; pallid; dismal. Each turned his face with a ghastly pang. Coleridge. His face was so ghastly that it could scarcely be recognized. Macaulay.

Ghastliness. [Obs.] Shak.

One of a mystical sect of the Greek Church in the fourteenth century; a quietist. Brande & C.

A contract (more fully called contract of hire with an option of purchase) in which a person hires goods for a specified period and at a fixed rent, with the added condition that if he shall retain the goods for the full period and pay all the installments of rent as they become due the contract shall determine and the…

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Unchastity. [Obs.] Milton.

A line connecting places on the earth's surface at which there is the same mean frequency of auroras.

Indicating equal auroral display; as, an isochasmic line.

Having many phases; specif. (Elec.),

A tribe of Indians who inhabited the south side of the Missouri River. They are now partly civilized and occupy a reservation in Nebraska.

Too great haste.