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Endowed with grace; beautiful; full of graces; honorable. Shak.

A theatrical performer; a stageplayer. After a well graced actor leaves the stage. Shak.

To favor; to grace. [Obs.] "That knight so much aggraced." Spenser.

An illegitimate child; a bastard. The Aga speedily . . . brought her [his disgraced slave] to court, together with her pretty by-blow, the present Padre Ottomano. Evelyn.

To put out favor; to dismiss with dishonor. Flatterers of the disgraced minister. Macaulay. Pitt had been disgraced and the old Duke of Newcastle dismissed. J. Morley.

Dishonored; disgraced; disfigured. [Obs.] Dishonest with lopped arms the youth appears, Spoiled of his nose and shortened of his ears. Dryden.

Spenser. An precious stones, in studs of gold enchased, The shaggy velvet of his buskins graced. Mickle.

tible; visible; physical or corporeal, as distinguished from mental or moral. Her virtues graced with external gifts. Shak.

To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify. Great Jove and Phoebus graced his noble line. Pope. We are graced with wreaths of victory. Shak.

abdomen, formerly practiced in Japan, and commanded by the government in the cases of disgraced officials; disembowelment; -- also written, but incorrectly, hari-kari. W. E. Griffis.

to intrude on the lands of another. Thy wit wants edge And manners, to intrude where I am graced. Shak. Some thoughts rise and intrude upon us, while we shun them; others fly from us, when we would hold them. I. Watts.

Graced with conquest; victorious. Athena, war's triumphant maid. Pope. So shall it be in the church triumphant. Perkins.

Not shent; not disgraced; blameless. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

, appareled with a vesture of plants. Bentley. There polished chests embroidered vestures graced. Pope.