Mace
[meys]
Trademark.
Also called Chemical Mace. a nonlethal spray containing purified tear gas and chemical solvents that temporarily incapacitate a person mainly by causing eye and skin irritations: used especially as a means of subduing rioters.
verb (used with object), Maced, Mac·ing.
(sometimes lowercase) to attack with Mace spray.
Origin of Mace
1965–70; probably from mace1 (in the sense “clublike weapon”)
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Word Origin for mace
C13: from Old French, probably from Vulgar Latin mattea (unattested); apparently related to Latin mateola mallet
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Word Origin for mace
C14: formed as a singular from Old French macis (wrongly assumed to be plural), from Latin macir an oriental spice
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