rase
An act of cutting, scraping, or scratching; also, an erasure.
Noun obsolete
- An act of cutting, scraping, or scratching; also, an erasure.
- Raſe a ſcrapyng - [1530 July 28 (Gregorian calendar), Iohan Palsgraue [i.e., John Palsgrave], “The Table of Substantyues”, in Lesclarcissement de la langue francoyse⸝ […], [London]: […] [Richard Pynson] fynnysshed by...
- Perceaue vve not hovv they vvhoſe tenderneſſe ſhrinketh at the leaſt raſe of a needles point, do kiſſe the ſvvord that pearceth their ſoules quite through? - a. 1601 (date written), Richard Hooker, A Remedie against...
- And did the Villaines lay ſuch load on, and yet ſet ſo light by my Sauiours [Jesus's] ſtripes; the drops of vvhoſe blood, the raſe of vvhoſe skinne, skarres of vvhoſe fleſh, ach of vvhoſe finger, vvas more then the...
- Alternative spelling of raze (“a slight wound; a scratch; also, a cut, a slit”).
- And verely the Emperour Nero vvas ſo greatly enamoured vpon one image of Alexander [the Great], that hee commaunded it to be guilded all over: but aftervvards, ſeeing that the more coſt vvas beſtovved upon it by laying...
- [T]ake the Cold-Chiſſel in your left hand, and ſet the edge of it upon that mark or raſe, and vvith the Hand Hammer in your right hand ſtrike upon the Head of the Cold-Chiſſel, till you cut, or rather punch the edge of...
Origin
A variant of raze, from Middle English rasen: see further at raze.
Forms
Noun obsolete, rare
- A measure in which the commodity assessed is made level with the top of the measuring vessel rather than heaped above it.
- Toll ſhall be taken by the Raſe, and not by the Heap or Cantel. Ordinance for Bakers, Brevvers, &c. cap. 4. it ſeems to have been a meaſure of Corn, novv diſuſed - 1670, Thomas Blount, “Rase”, in Νομο-λεξικον...
Origin
Probably either: * from Late Latin rāsum (neuter), rāsa (“level measure of grain”, feminine), a noun use of Latin rāsus (“scraped; shaved”, masculine), the perfect passive participle of rādō (“to scrape; to scratch; to shave; to touch upon, graze”), from Proto-Italic *razdō, further etymology unknown; or * from Anglo-Norman rase (“level measure of grain”), from Latin rāsus (see above).
Forms
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Verb alt of, alternative
- Alternative spelling of raze.
- [T]he fire-dragon had rased the coastal region and reduced forts and earthworks to dust and ashes, so the war-king planned and plotted his revenge. - 1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 74:
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(transitive) To level or tear down (a building, a town, etc.) to the ground; to demolish.
- The fortreſſe was raſed and beaten downe to the erthe⸝ whiche had coſt moche the makynge therof: […] - 1523 February 7 (Gregorian calendar), Johan Froyssart [i.e., Jean Froissart], “Howe the Frẽche Kyng Sent a Great...
- Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom, in the day of Jeruſalem; who ſayd, raſe it, raſe it: euen to the foundation thereof. - 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalm...
- [A]fter they had deſtroyed Religion, they pulled dovvn Churches, (as being then of no Uſe) and raſed the nobleſt Structures in the Land, to ſell the Materials; […] - 1659, Samuel Butler, “Two Speeches Made in the...
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(transitive, figurative) To completely remove (someone or something), especially from a place, a situation, etc.; also, to remove from existence; to destroy, to obliterate.
- It is true, the Devil did not immediately raſe out the Notion of Religion and of a God from the Minds of Men, […] - 1726, [Daniel Defoe], “Of the Devil’s Second Kingdom, and How He Got Footing in the Renew’d World by...
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(transitive, also figurative) To erase (a record, text, etc.), originally by scraping; to rub out, to scratch out.
- Suppleyng to Fame, I besought her grace, / And that it wolde please her, full tenderly I prayd, / Owt of her bokis Apollo to rase. - 1523, John Skelton, “A Ryght Delectable Tratyse vpon a Goodly Garlande or Chapelet of...
- [N]o malice of ſucceeding daies, / can raſe thoſe records of thy laſting praiſe. - 1595, G. W. I[unior], “[Dedicatory poem]”, in Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter...
- The painefull vvarrier famoſed for vvorth, / After a thouſand victories once foild, / Is from the booke of honour raſed quite, / And all the reſt forgot for vvhich he toild: […] - 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 25”,...
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(transitive, archaic except UK, regional) To wound (someone or part of their body) superficially; to graze.
- For vvas he not in the neareſt Neighbourhood to Death? And might not the Bullet, that perhaps raſed his Cheek, have as eaſily gone into his Head? - 1685 March 3 (date delivered; Gregorian calendar); first published...
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(transitive, obsolete) To alter (a document) by erasing parts of it.
- [page 650] A raſing or cancelling of a record by the order of that court, in vvhoſe cuſtody the record is, is no felony in him that doth it, nor in the court that commands it, for the court hath a ſuperintendence, as...
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(transitive, obsolete) To carve (a line, mark, etc.) into something; to incise, to inscribe; also, to carve lines, marks, etc., into (something); to engrave.
- [Y]ou muſt mark the out-lines of your intended Hinge, […] either vvith Chalk, or elſe raſe upon the Plate vvith the corner of the Cold-Chiſſel, or any other hardned Steel that vvill ſcratch a bright ſtroke upon the...
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(transitive, obsolete) To remove (something) by scraping; also, to cut or shave (something) off.
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(transitive, obsolete) To rub lightly along the surface of (something); brush against, to graze.
- And novv [the Rhine] by this time augmented vvith ſnovv, melted and reſolved into vvater, and raſing as it goes the high bankes vvith their curving reaches, entreth into a round and vaſt lake (vvhich the Rhætians...
- Sometimes, his feet raſed the ſurface of the water; and, at others, the ſkylight almoſt flattened his noſe. - 1786, [William Beckford], translated by [Samuel Henley], An Arabian Tale, from an Unpublished Manuscript: […]...
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(transitive, obsolete) To scrape (something) to remove things from its surface; also, to reduce (something) to small pieces by scraping; to grate.
- And you are a ſoule, ſo vvhite, and ſo chaſte, / A table ſo ſmooth, and ſo nevvly ra'ſte, / As nothing cald foule, / Dare approach vvith a blot, / Or any leaſt ſpot; […] - 1621 August 13 (first performance; Gregorian...
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(transitive, obsolete) To shave (someone or part of their body) with a razor, etc.
- [A] ſharpe worde moued thée, when other whiles a ſworde will not, then a friendly checke killeth thée, when a raſor cannot raſe thée. - 1580, Iohn Lyly [i.e., John Lyly], “Euphues to Him, that was His Philautus”, in...
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(transitive, obsolete) (also figurative) To cut, scratch, or tear (someone or something) with a sharp object; to lacerate, to slash.
- Dravv forth thy ſvvord, thou mightie man at armes, / Intending but to raiſe my charmed ſkin: / And Ioue himſelfe vvill ſtretch his hand from heauen, / To vvard the blovv, and ſhield me ſafe from harme, […] - c....
- VVheels o'er the harden'd VVaters ſmoothly glide, / And raſe vvith vvhiten'd Tracks the ſlipp'ry Tide. - [1716], [John] Gay, “Book II. Of Walking the Streets by Day.”, in Trivia: Or, The Art of Walking the Streets of...
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(intransitive, obsolete) To carve lines, marks, etc., into something.
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(intransitive, obsolete) To graze or rub lightly along a surface.
- Betwene theſe Ilandes and the continente, he entered into ſoo narowe ſtreyghtes, that he coulde ſcarſely turne backe the ſhippes: And theſe alſo ſo ſhalowe, that the keele of the ſhyps ſumtyme raſed on the ſandes. -...
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(intransitive, obsolete) To penetrate through something; to pierce.
- [O]ne Robert Dutch of Ipſvvith, having been ſorely vvounded by a Bullet that raſed to his skull, and then mauled by the Indian Hatchets, left for dead by the Salvages,^([sic – meaning Savages]) and ſtript by them of all...
Forms
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Verb archaic, intransitive
- To be extremely angry; to rage; specifically, of a dog or wolf: to snarl in rage.
- [T]he ſtones did ſeem / Too roare and bellow hoarce: and doggs too howle and raze extréeme: […] - 1567, Ovid, “The Fourteenth Booke”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled...
- So up & down that critic rased / & back & foorth he foyned & trased / & monstrous strookes deliverd; […] - a. 1896 (date written), Eugene Field, “The Tragedie of Elaine”, in The Clink of the Ice and Other Poems Worth...
Origin
From Late Middle English rasen, rasyn (“to rage; to enrage (?)”), probably from Middle Dutch râsen, râzen (“to be extremely angry, rage; to be mad, rave; to talk nonsense; of a dog: to be rabid”), from Old Dutch *rāson (modern Dutch razen), from Proto-West Germanic *rāsōn (“to rush”), Proto-Germanic *rēsōną (“to rush”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁s- (“to flow; to rush”). cognates * Swedish rasa (“rage”)
Forms
Verb alt of, alternative
- Alternative spelling of race (“to pluck or snatch (something); also, to pull (something)”).
- [T]his Night / He dreamt, the Bore had raſed off his Helme: […] - c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […]...
- But doom the arm that perils not / In beauty's quarrel, every vein / That runs with ruddy drops, to rot / Beneath a taunting chain, / And that ignoblest hands should rase / The crest and spur from one so base. - 1820,...
Origin
PIE word *wréh₂ds A variant of race (“(obsolete) to pluck; to pull off; to snatch; to tear”), partly influenced by raze.
Forms
Verb intransitive, obsolete
- Of a natural marking on the head of an animal (chiefly a horse): to extend down the head.
Origin
From rase, race (“(usually white) marking on the head of an animal, chiefly a horse”); further etymology uncertain, possibly a specific use of race (“(obsolete) mark; cut, scratch”, noun), from race (“to cut, slash; to scratch; to tear”) (southwest England), a variant of raze.