crase

present singular third person crases · participle present crasing · participle past crased · past crased

1. Early Modern spelling of craze (“break into pieces, crack”).

   […] verily it behoueth them ouer whome wee haue rule, not to runne about, neither by their craftie & deceitful rashnes to crase the concord of Byshops agreeing togither […]

   1580, Cyprian, translated by William Fulke, “[Epistle]”, in William Fulke, A Retentive to Stay Good Christians, in True Faith and Religion […], page 269

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   Imprimis, The Imperiall Crowne of this Realme of Goulde, the Border garnished with seaven Ballaces, eight Saphiers, five pointed Diamonds, twenty Rubies two of them being crased, nineteen Pearls […]

   1606, James VI and I, “Scedula Jocalium, Coronæ Angliæ annexatorum”, in Robert Sanderson, editor, Foedera, Conventiones, Literæ, Et Cujuscunque Generis Acta Publica, Inter Reges Angliæ […], volume 16 (overall work in Latin), published 1615, page 643

   […] had Maister Can had either any shame in his forehead, or wit in his head-piece, he would never have adventured in so shamefull, or shameles rather, a manner, to vent so evident an untrueth, against his owne eye-sight and the open view of all men, and thereby to crase & crack, yea to wrack, not his conscience only, but his credite too.

   1614, William Bradshaw, The Unreasonableness of the Separation […], published 1640, page 123

plural Crases

1. A surname.