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Definition of Enchases
1. enchase [v] - See also: enchase
Lexicographical Neighbors of Enchases
Literary usage of Enchases
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Law of Bailments: With Illustrations from the Civil and by Joseph Story, James Schouler (1878)
"To carry jewels safely may be a far more valuable service, and require far more
vigilance, than to clean the gold which enchases them. ..."
2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1830)
"... and which, also ossifying and uniting itself to the maxillary bone and to the
nut, become osseous, enchases or sets the tooth with new force. ..."
3. Resolves, Divine, Moral and Political by Owen Felltham (1820)
"But however this »nay be, virtue and true nobleness is the true crown of honour;
it enamels and enchases what is gold, and gilds what is not, ..."
4. Poets of the Younger Generation by William Archer (1902)
"He takes this common pebble of the highway and so cunningly enchases it that we
would not exchange it for an orient pearl of speech. ..."
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