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To raise; to elevate. [Obs.] Lydgate.

See Hanse.

A chief chancellor; -- an officer in the old German empire, who presided over the secretaries of the court.

By chance; by accident. [Obs.] Grafton.

is strictly and philosophically true in nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these words do not signify anything really existing, anything that is truly an agent or the cause of any event; but they signify merely men's ignorance of the real and immediate cause. Samu…

Luck; chance; accident. Milton. Cowper.

Fortuitous; casual. [Obs.]

By chance. [Obs.]

Hazardous. [Obs.] Spenser.

cruciform church which is beyond the line of the transept farthest from the main front. Chancel aisle (Arch.), the aisle which passes on either side of or around the chancel. -- Chancel arch (Arch.), the arch which spans the main opening, leading to the chancel -- Chancel casement, the principal window in a chancel.…

Chancellorship. [Obs.] Gower.

A judicial court of chancery, which in England and in the United States is distinctively a court with equity jurisdiction.

The office of a chancellor; the time during which one is chancellor.

tion at law, but chiefly in equity; but under the jurisdiction act of 1873 it became the chancery division of the High Court of Justice, and now exercises jurisdiction only in equity.

To raise or lift up; to exalt. [Obs.] Wyclif. Who, naught aghast, his mighty hand enhanced. Spenser.

The act of increasing, or state of being increased; augmentation; aggravation; as, the enhancement of value, price, enjoyments, crime.

One who enhances; one who, or that which, raises the amount, price, etc.

See Enhance.

Ill luck; ill fortune; mishap. Chaucer. Never come mischance between us twain. Shak.

Unlucky. R. Browning.