Meanings
verbinchase (third-person singular simple present inchases, present participle inchasing, simple past and past participle inchased)
present singular third person inchases · participle present inchasing · participle past inchased · past inchased
- archaicArchaic form of enchase.
Her breath like a rose, It’s sweets does disclose, Whenever you ravish a kiss; Like iv’ry inchas’d, Her teeth are well plac’d, An exquisite beauty she is.
a. 1722, Matthew Prior, “Nelly’s Picture. A Song”, in H. Bunker Wright, Monroe K. Spears, editors, The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, Second edition, volume I, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1971, page 688
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APA
inchase. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inchase
MLA
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “inchase,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inchase.
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