The Collaborative International Dictionary
Enchase \En*chase"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enchased; p. pr. & vb. n. Enchasing.] [F. ench[^a]sser; pref. en- (L. in) + ch[^a]sse box containing relics, frame, case, the same word as caisse case. See 1st Case, and cf. Chase, Encase, Incase.]
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To incase or inclose in a border or rim; to surround 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.
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To chase; to ornament by embossing or engraving; as, to enchase a watch case.
With golden letters . . . well enchased.
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To delineate or describe, as by writing. [Obs.]
All which . . . for to enchase, Him needeth sure a golden pen, I ween.
--Spenser.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: enchase)
Usage examples of "enchased".
Nicephorus was exposed on a spear, and his skull, enchased with gold, was often replenished in the feasts of victory.
Janizaries, who wore his bones enchased in a bracelet, declared by this superstitious amulet their involuntary reverence for his valor.
Give me my earthen cups again, The crystal I contemn, Which, though enchased with pearls, contain A deadly draught in them.
This ring of mine would lose half its beauty were not the signet encircled and enchased with these lesser brilliants, which grace it and set it off.
Across from the piano stood the sideboard, black with cut-glass sliding panels, enchased in black eggs-and-anchors.
II For, wonning in these ancient lands, Enchased and lettered as a tomb, And scored with prints of perished hands, And chronicled with dates of doom, Though my own Being bear no bloom I trace the lives such scenes enshrine, Give past exemplars present room, And their experience count as mine.
From rocks around hung the loose ivy dangling, And in the clefts sumach of liveliest green, Bright ising-stars the little beach was spangling, The gold-cup sorrel from his gauzy screen Shone like a fairy crown, enchased and beaded, Left on some morn, when light flashed in their eyes unheeded.
Desperately he thrust against the enchased marble wall, loosed one hand from the rope, stretched for the rail.