Part 4920

<blockquote>Great Jove and Phoebus graced his noble line. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>We are <b>graced</b> with wreaths of victory. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To dignify or raise by an act of favor; to honor.</def>

<blockquote>He might, at his pleasure, <b>grace</b> or disgrace whom he would in court. <i>Knolles.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To supply with heavenly grace.</def>

<i>Bp. Hall.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>(Mus.) To add grace notes, cadenzas, etc., to.</def>

<h1>Graced</h1> <Xpage=642>

<hw>Graced</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Endowed with grace; beautiful; full of graces; honorable.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Graceful</h1> <Xpage=642>

<hw>Grace"ful</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; <as>as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech</as>.</def>

<blockquote>High o'er the rest in arms the <b>graceful</b> Turnus rode. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

-- <wordforms><wf>Grace"ful*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <wf>Grace"ful*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Graceless</h1> <Xpage=642>

<hw>Grace"less</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Wanting in grace or excellence; departed from, or deprived of, divine grace; hence, depraved; corrupt.</def> "In a <i>graceless</i> age."

<i>Milton.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Unfortunate. Cf. <er>Grace</er>, <tt>n.</tt>, 4.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

-- <wordforms><wf>Grace"less*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- <wf>Grace"less-ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Gracile, Gracillent</h1> <Xpage=642>

<hw><hw>Grac"ile</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Grac"il*lent</hw> <tt>(?)</tt><hw> <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>gracilis</ets>, <ets>gracilentus</ets>.]</ety> <def>Slender; thin.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Bailey.</i>

<h1>Gracility</h1> <Xpage=642>

<hw>Gra*cil"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. gracilitas; cf. F. <ets>gracilit\'82</ets>.]</ety> <def>State of being gracilent; slenderness.</def> <i>Milman</i>. "Youthful <i>gracility</i>."

<i>W. D. Howells.</i>

<h1>Gracious</h1> <Xpage=642>

<hw>Gra"cious</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>gracieux</ets>, L. <ets>gratiosus</ets>. See <er>Grace</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Abounding in grace or mercy; manifesting love,. or bestowing mercy; characterized by grace; beneficent; merciful; disposed to show kindness or favor; condescending; <as>as, his most <ex>gracious</ex> majesty</as>.</def>