race
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rās
ipa: /ɹeɪs/
rhymes: -eɪs
Forms: form: races
form: racing
form: raced
form: raced
form: rase
Etymology: PIE word
 *wréh₂ds
From Middle English racen, rasen (“to come apart; to pick clean, strip; to pull away, snatch; to pull down, knock down; to pull off, strip off; to pluck or tear out; to tear apart”), either:
* an aphetic form of arasen, aracen (“to pluck, pull, or tear away or out”), from Anglo-Norman aracer and Old French aracier, esracier, esrachier (“to pull off”) (modern French arracher), from Latin ērādīcāre, the present active infinitive of ērādīcō (“to root out; to annihilate, extirpate”), from ē- (variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’) + rādīx (“root”) (from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds (“root”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation infinitives of verbs); or
* from Anglo-Norman racer, an aphetic form of aracer (see above).
Senses: examples: text: [H]e be-heilde towarde the fier, and saugh the flesshe that the knaue hadde rosted that was tho I-nough, and raced it of with his hondes madly, and rente it a-sonder in peces, and wette it in mylke, and after in the hony, and ete as a wood man that nought ther lefte of the flessh; […]
ref: [c. 1450–1460 (date written), “The Dream of the Wife of King Ban; the Dream of Julius Cæsar, Emperor of Rome”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, Merlin or The Early History of King Arthur: A Prose Romance […] (Early English Text Society; 112), volume I (in Middle English), London: [F]or the Early English Text Society by Kegal Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., published 1899, →OCLC, page 424:
english: [H]e [Merlin] beheld toward the fire, and saw the flesh that the knave had roasted that was though [?] enough, and snatched it off with his hands madly, and rent it asunder in pieces, and wet it in milk, and after in the honey, and ate as a woodman, that nought [was] there left of the flesh; […]
translation: [H]e [Merlin] beheld toward the fire, and saw the flesh that the knave had roasted that was though [?] enough, and snatched it off with his hands madly, and rent it asunder in pieces, and wet it in milk, and after in the honey, and ate as a woodman, that nought [was] there left of the flesh; […]
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text: But nowe a ſtronge man not vſed to ſhoote, at a girde, can heue vp ⁊ plucke in ſunder many a good bowe, as wilde horſes at a brunt doth race and plucke in peeces many a ſtronge carte.
ref: 1545, Roger Ascham, “The First Booke”, in Toxophilus, the Schole, or Partitions of Shooting […], [new] edition, London: […] Thomas Marshe, published 1571, →OCLC, folio 30, recto:
text: Stanley did dreame the boare did race his helme, / But I diſdaind it, and did ſcorne to flie, […]
ref: c. 1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedy of King Richard the Third. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Sims [and Peter Short] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1597, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], signatures G2, recto – G2, verso:
text: He to her lept vvith deadly dreadfull looke, / And her ſunſhynie helmet ſoon vnlaced, / Thinking at once both head and helmet to haue raced.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 11, page 242:
text: Thus erring Rome hath, doth, & vvill our chriſtian VVorld vnqueate: / May therefore Princes ioyne to race that Monſter from his Seate.
ref: 1602, William Warner, “The Twel[f]th Booke. Chapter LXXIII.”, in Albions England. A Continued Historie of the Same Kingdome, from the Originals of the First Inhabitants thereof: […], 5th edition, London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant for George Potter, […], →OCLC, page 304:
glosses: To pluck or snatch (something); also, to pull (something).