raseth

Verb (1)

rase (third-person singular simple present rases, present participle rasing, simple past and past participle rased)

1. (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 Metamorphosis, […], London: […] Willyam Seres […], →OCLC, folio 179, recto

Verb (2)

rase (third-person singular simple present rases, present participle rasing, simple past and past participle rased)

1. (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 Nauy to the See⸝ ⁊ howe Duyers Townes were Brent in Englande: ⁊ howe the Duke of...
2. (figuratively, transitive) 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 His Victory over Noah and His Race”, in The Political History of the Devil, as well Ancient as...
3. (also, figuratively, transitive) 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 Laurell, […]”, in Alexander Dyce, editor, The Poetical Works of John Skelton: […], volume I, London: Thomas Rodd...
4. (regional, transitive, archaic except UK) 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 1692, Robert South, “A Sermon Preached at Westminster-Abbey, February 22. 168⁴⁄₅.”, in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several...
5. (obsolete, transitive) 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 vvell over the record as over the clerks. […] It muſt be ſuch an embezzelling or...a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, “Concerning the New Felonies Enacted in the Times of H[enry] 4. H[enry] 5. H[enry] 6. E[dward] 4.”, in Sollom Emlyn, editor, Historia Placitorum Coronæ: The...

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