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Dorcassed

Dorcassed is the simple past and past participle of Dorcas.

Meaning of Dorcas

Verb

Dorcas (third-person singular simple present Dorcasses or Dorcases, present participle Dorcassing or Dorcasing, simple past and past participle Dorcassed or Dorcased)

  1. To do the work of a Dorcas; to make and distribute clothes to the poor.
    • They had been pouring tea and passing wafers when they should have been Dorcassing at their Christmas tasks.1912, Rupert Hughes, Mrs. Budlong's Christmas Presents, page 59

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Questions about Dorcassed

What is Dorcassed the simple past and past participle of?
Dorcassed is the simple past and past participle of Dorcas.

Words near Dorcassed in the dictionary

  1. dorcadion
  2. dorcadions
  3. Dorcas
  4. dorcas gazelle
  5. dorcas gazelles
  6. Dorcassed
  7. Dorcasses
  8. Dorcassing
  9. dorcastries
  10. dorcastry
  11. Dorce

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Dorcassed (page history and authors); Dorcas (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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