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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Case \Case\, n. [F. cas, fr. L. casus, fr. cadere to fall, to happen. Cf. Chance.]
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Chance; accident; hap; opportunity. [Obs.]
By aventure, or sort, or cas.
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That which befalls, comes, or happens; an event; an instance; a circumstance, or all the circumstances; condition; state of things; affair; as, a strange case; a case of injustice; the case of the Indian tribes.
In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge.
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If the case of the man be so with his wife.
--Matt. xix. 10.And when a lady's in the case You know all other things give place.
--Gay.You think this madness but a common case.
--Pope.I am in case to justle a constable,
--Shak.3. (Med. & Surg.) A patient under treatment; an instance of sickness or injury; as, ten cases of fever; also, the history of a disease or injury.
A proper remedy in hypochondriacal cases.
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(Law) The matters of fact or conditions involved in a suit, as distinguished from the questions of law; a suit or action at law; a cause.
Let us consider the reason of the case, for nothing is law that is not reason.
--Sir John Powell.Not one case in the reports of our courts.
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(Gram.) One of the forms, or the inflections or changes of form, of a noun, pronoun, or adjective, which indicate its relation to other words, and in the aggregate constitute its declension; the relation which a noun or pronoun sustains to some other word.
Case is properly a falling off from the nominative or first state of word; the name for which, however, is now, by extension of its signification, applied also to the nominative.
--J. W. Gibbs.Note: Cases other than the nominative are oblique cases. Case endings are terminations by which certain cases are distinguished. In old English, as in Latin, nouns had several cases distinguished by case endings, but in modern English only that of the possessive case is retained.
Action on the case (Law), according to the old classification (now obsolete), was an action for redress of wrongs or injuries to person or property not specially provided against by law, in which the whole cause of complaint was set out in the writ; -- called also trespass on the case, or simply case.
All a case, a matter of indifference. [Obs.] ``It is all a case to me.''
--L'Estrange.Case at bar. See under Bar, n.
Case divinity, casuistry.
Case lawyer, one versed in the reports of cases rather than in the science of the law.
Case stated or Case agreed on (Law), a statement in writing of facts agreed on and submitted to the court for a decision of the legal points arising on them.
A hard case, an abandoned or incorrigible person. [Colloq.]
In any case, whatever may be the state of affairs; anyhow.
In case, or In case that, if; supposing that; in the event or contingency; if it should happen that. ``In case we are surprised, keep by me.''
--W. Irving.In good case, in good condition, health, or state of body.
To put a case, to suppose a hypothetical or illustrative case.
Syn: Situation, condition, state; circumstances; plight; predicament; occurrence; contingency; accident; event; conjuncture; cause; action; suit.
Wiktionary
conj. Because event X may occur prep. 1 Because of the possibility of 2 In the event of
WordNet
adv. if there happens to be need; "in case of trouble call 911"; "I have money, just in case" [syn: just in case]
Usage examples of "in case".
White, actually, Lieutenant Colonel White, whom you just met, was part of a chain of officers, decreasing in rank from General to Captain, charged with operation of the facility in case of an invasion.
Two days after the Pakistani Guard first made threats of hidden nuclear weapons, the television network had set up remote cameras to run twenty-four hours a day outside the threatened cities just in case the Guard carried out its threats.
I wanted to give the cast and crew plenty of warning, in case they had to find work or relocate their families.
The saddles were of wood, and calculated to inflict serious internal injuries to the rider in case of a fall.
Aly walked between Dove and the ring of guards, to be on hand in case the Crown decided life would be easier without the older Balitang girls and the rumors that cropped up wherever they went.
They also allowed the nobles to see their own people, in case they needed something the pavilion did not provide.
I also had Fesgao send some of his people out to keep an eye on you, in case things went awry.
With their ladies gone, the maids settled to wait, in case their mistresses tore out a hem or stained their clothes during the meal.
Realizing the time, she went in search of Dove, in case she had instructions for Aly.
And at least one should be a mage, in case this Graveyard Hag is hanging around.
The Balitangs should have gone home to changethe other mothers wore their court costumes under their oiled capes in case all was wellbut the duchess refused to move.
Aly stayed behind them, in case this was a ruse to let assassins get close to her mistress.
Several times I had woken up in the night to make sure all the cigarette butts in the ashtray beside her were out, looking under the bed in case one had fallen there.
I only asked for one set, but the grant society sent me two in case I ever got a partner.
I have also seen a transcript on display in your Situation Centre just now, but I have this copy here and in case some of your Excellencies may not have had the opportunity to consider it I should like to read it to you now.