Word: rase Part of Speech: verb Etymology: A variant of raze, from Middle English rasen: see further at raze. Pronunciation: /ɹeɪz/ 1. Alternative spelling of raze. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: [T]he fire-dragon had rased the coastal region and reduced forts and earthworks to dust and ashes, so the war-king planned and plotted his revenge. 2. Alternative spelling of raze. Labels: transitive Example: The fortreſſe was raſed and beaten downe to the erthe⸝ whiche had coſt moche the makynge therof: […] Example: Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom, in the day of Jeruſalem; who ſayd, raſe it, raſe it: euen to the foundation thereof. 3. Alternative spelling of raze. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: It is true, the Devil did not immediately raſe out the Notion of Religion and of a God from the Minds of Men, […] 4. Alternative spelling of raze. Labels: also, figuratively, transitive Example: Suppleyng to Fame, I besought her grace, / And that it wolde please her, full tenderly I prayd, / Owt of her bokis Apollo to rase. Example: [N]o malice of ſucceeding daies, / can raſe thoſe records of thy laſting praiſe. 5. Alternative spelling of raze. Labels: regional, transitive Example: 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? 6. Alternative spelling of raze. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: [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 avoiding of the record, by reaſon vvhereof a judgment is reverſed, […] [page 651] [I]f A. B. be ſued by the original to the exigent and outlavved, and aftervvard the exigent is made C. B. and the original is alſo made C. B. to make all agree, this is felony as vvell in the clerk that raſeth the original, as him that raſeth the exigent. 7. Alternative spelling of raze. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: [Y]ou muſt mark the out-lines of your intended Hinge, […] either vvith Chalk, or elſe raſe upon the Plate vvith the corner of the Cold-Chiſſel, or any other hardned Steel that vvill ſcratch a bright ſtroke upon the Plate: […] 8. Alternative spelling of raze. Labels: obsolete, transitive 9. Alternative spelling of raze. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: And novv [the Rhine] by this time augmented vvith ſnovv, melted and reſolved into vvater, and raſing as it goes the high bankes vvith their curving reaches, entreth into a round and vaſt lake (vvhich the Rhætians dvvelling thereby, call Brigantia) […] Example: Sometimes, his feet raſed the ſurface of the water; and, at others, the ſkylight almoſt flattened his noſe. 10. Alternative spelling of raze. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: And you are a ſoule, ſo vvhite, and ſo chaſte, / A table ſo ſmooth, and ſo nevvly ra'ſte, / As nothing cald foule, / Dare approach vvith a blot, / Or any leaſt ſpot; […] 11. Alternative spelling of raze. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: [A] ſharpe worde moued thée, when other whiles a ſworde will not, then a friendly checke killeth thée, when a raſor cannot raſe thée. 12. Alternative spelling of raze. Labels: also, figuratively, obsolete, transitive Example: Dravv forth thy ſvvord, thou mightie man at armes, / Intending but to raiſe my charmed ſkin: / And Ioue himſelfe vvill ſtretch his hand from heauen, / To vvard the blovv, and ſhield me ſafe from harme, […] Example: VVheels o'er the harden'd VVaters ſmoothly glide, / And raſe vvith vvhiten'd Tracks the ſlipp'ry Tide. 13. Alternative spelling of raze. Labels: intransitive, obsolete 14. Alternative spelling of raze. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: Betwene theſe Ilandes and the continente, he entered into ſoo narowe ſtreyghtes, that he coulde ſcarſely turne backe the ſhippes: And theſe alſo ſo ſhalowe, that the keele of the ſhyps ſumtyme raſed on the ſandes. 15. Alternative spelling of raze. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: [O]ne Robert Dutch of Ipſvvith, having been ſorely vvounded by a Bullet that raſed to his skull, and then mauled by the Indian Hatchets, left for dead by the Salvages,^([sic – meaning Savages]) and ſtript by them of all but his skin; […]