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- verb obsolete Simple past tense and past participle of
grace .
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Examples
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Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter; grac't indeed since by the use of some famous modern Poets, carried away by Custom, but much to thir own vexation, hindrance, and constraint to express many things otherwise, and for the most part worse then else they would have exprest them.
Irish Blogs 2009
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168: That I who first brought Death on all, am grac't
Paradise Lost (1667) 1667
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Meeter; grac't indeed since by the use of some famous modern Poets, carried away by Custom, but much to their own vexation, hindrance, and constraint to express many things otherwise, and for the most part worse then else they would have exprest them. "
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 Various
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