enchase
Americanverb (used with object)
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to place (gems) in an ornamental setting.
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to decorate with inlay, embossing, or engraving.
verb
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Etymology
Origin of enchase
1425–75; late Middle English < Middle French enchasser to case in, equivalent to en- en- 1 + -chasser, derivative of chasse case 2
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She may turn out to be a pearl of a wife, this young lady whom you are requested to enchase in gold.
From Major Frank by James Akeroyd
The sheath may be beautiful, it may be exquisitely and appropriately enchased; but a sheath is no good without a sword.
From Robert Browning: How to Know Him by William Lyon Phelps
Selected from my stores, of matchless price, An urn shall recompense your prudent choice; By Vulcan's art, the verge with gold enchased.
From The Odyssey by Alexander Pope
At last he, with a low courtesy, put on her medical finger a pretty handsome golden ring, whereinto was right artificially enchased a precious toadstone of Beausse.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Peter Anthony Motteux
It is enchased in a shrine, and is to be seene but thorow a christall glasse, and on the side which may be noated, appeareth nothing but a head.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 563, August 25, 1832 by Various
Of late years the enchased brass vessels made in Benares have been much admired, and have secured a large and profitable sale.
From Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 by James Kennedy
Relating to the art of carving, enchasing, or embossing in low relief.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
After dismounting it—an operation that the quite primitive enchasing of the face plate renders very easy—we took a copy of it, which we measured with care.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 by Various
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