Part 1675

<blockquote>In any <b>case</b> thou shalt deliver him the pledge. <i>Deut. xxiv. 13.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>If the <b>case</b> of the man be so with his wife. <i>Matt. xix. 10.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>And when a lady's in the <b>case</b>. You know all other things give place. <i>Gay.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>You think this madness but a common <b>case</b>. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>I am in <b>case</b> to justle a constable, <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Med. & Surg.)</fld> <def>A patient under treatment; an instance of sickness or injury; <as>as, ten <ex>cases</ex> of fever</as>; also, the history of a disease or injury.</def>

<blockquote>A proper remedy in hypochondriacal <b>cases</b>. <i>Arbuthnot.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>The matters of fact or conditions involved in a suit, as distinguished from the questions of law; a suit or action at law; a cause.</def>

<blockquote>Let us consider the reason of the <b>case</b>, for nothing is law that is not reason. <i>Sir John Powell.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Not one <b>case</b> in the reports of our courts. <i>Steele.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Gram.)</fld> <def>One of the forms, or the inflections or changes of form, of a noun, pronoun, or adjective, which indicate its relation to other words, and in the aggregate constitute its declension; the relation which a noun or pronoun sustains to some other word.</def>

<blockquote><b>Case</b> is properly a <b>falling off</b> from the nominative or first state of word; the name for which, however, is now, by extension of its signification, applied also to the nominative. <i>J. W. Gibbs.</i></blockquote>

<note>&hand; <i>Cases</i> other than the nominative are <i>oblique cases</i>. <i>Case endings</i> are terminations by which certain cases are distinguished. In old English, as in Latin, nouns had several cases distinguished by <i>case endings</i>, but in modern English only that of the possessive case is retained.</note>

<cs><col>Action on the case</col> <fld>(Law)</fld>, <cd>according to the old classification (now obsolete), was an action for redress of wrongs or injuries to person or property not specially provided against by law, in which the whole cause of complaint was set out in the writ; -- called also <altname>trespass on the case</altname>, or simply <altname>case</altname>.</cd> -- <col>All a case</col>, <cd>a matter of indifference.</cd> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "It is <i>all a case<i> to me." <i>L'Estrange</i>. -- <col>Case at bar</col>. <cd>See under <er>Bar</er>, <tt>n.</tt></cd> -- <col>Case divinity</col>, <cd>casuistry.</cd> -- <col>Case lawyer</col>, <cd>one versed in the reports of cases rather than in the science of the law.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Case stated</col> or <col>agreed on</col></mcol> <fld>(Law)</fld>, <cd>a statement in writing of facts agreed on and submitted to the court for a decision of the legal points arising on them.</cd> -- <col>A hard case</col>, <cd>an abandoned or incorrigible person.</cd> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark> -- <col>In any case</col></mcol>, <cd>whatever may be the state of affairs; anyhow.</cd> -- <mcol><col>In case</col>, &or; <col>In case that</col></mcol>, <cd>if; supposing that; in the event or contingency; if it should happen that.</cd> "<i>In case<i> we are surprised, keep by me." <i>W. Irving</i>. -- <col>In good case</col>, <cd>in good condition, health, or state of body.</cd> -- <col>To put a case</col>, <cd>to suppose a hypothetical or illustrative case.</cd></cs>

<syn>Syn. -- Situation, condition, state; circumstances; plight; predicament; occurrence; contingency; accident; event; conjuncture; cause; action; suit.</syn>

<h1>Case</h1> <Xpage=222>

<hw>Case</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To propose hypothetical cases.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "<i>Casing</i> upon the matter."

<i>L'Estrange.</i>

<h1>Caseation</h1> <Xpage=222>

<hw>Ca`se*a"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>cas\'82ation</ets>. See <er>Casein</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>A degeneration of animal tissue into a cheesy or curdy mass.</def>

<h1>Case-bay</h1> <Xpage=222>

<hw>Case"-bay`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>The space between two principals or girders</def>. <sd>(b)</sd> <def>One of the joists framed between a pair of girders in naked flooring.</def>

<h1>Caseharden</h1> <Xpage=222>

<hw>Case"hard`en</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To subject to a process which converts the surface of iron into steel.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To render insensible to good influences.</def>

<h1>Casehardened</h1> <Xpage=222>

<hw>Case"hard`ened</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Having the surface hardened, as iron tools.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Hardened against, or insusceptible to, good influences; rendered callous by persistence in wrongdoing or resistance of good influences; -- said of persons.</def>