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graced, ppl. a.|greɪst| [f. grace n. or v. + -ed.] Endowed with grace; favoured; having a grace or graces; embellished, etc. Also well graced.
1593Shakes. Rich. II v. ii. 24 After a well grac'd Actor leaues the Stage. 1605― Macbeth iii. iv. 41 Here had we now our Countries Honor roof'd, Were the grac'd person of our Banquo present. ― Lear i. iv. 267 More like a Tauerne, or a Brothell, Then a grac'd Pallace. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. xviii. §5. 68 Their well graced fourmes of speech. c1630Naunton Fragm. Reg. (Arb.) 52 A maxime of more discretion for the conduct and management of their now graced Lord and Master. 1645Rutherford Tryal & Tri. Faith (1845) 40 All graced persons are privileged persons. 1701Cibber Love Makes Man iv. ii, I'm little practis'd in the Rules of grac'd Behaviour. 1797M. Robinson Walsingham III. 260 The graced affections growing from the pure and feeling heart. Ibid. IV. 38 That graced complacency which seems to experience pleasure in harmonizing the feelings of others. 1832Standish Maid of Jaen 44 All wears devotion's solemn face austere, From the grac'd altar to the black'ned bier. 1880Academy 23 Oct. 300 The best graced of our English actresses. |