aggrace

English

Etymology

Latin aggratiare, from ad (“to”) and gratia (“grace”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈɡɹeɪs/
• Rhymes: -eɪs

Verb

aggrace (third-person singular simple present aggraces, present participle aggracing, simple past and past participle aggraced)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To favour; to grace.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 18:

     And heare the wisedome of her words diuine. / She graunted, and that knight so much agraste, / That she him taught celestiall discipline, / And opened his dull eyes, that light mote in them shine

Noun

aggrace (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) grace; favour
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 56:

     So goodly purpose they together fond, / Of kindnesse and of curteous aggrace;