graceGRACE, n. [L. gratia, which is formed on the Celtic; Eng. agree, congruous, and ready. The primary sense of gratus, is free, ready, quick, willing, prompt, from advancing.] 10. Favor; mercy; pardon. 11. Favor conferred. 12. Privilege. 13. That in manner, deportment or language which renders it appropriate and agreeable; suitableness; elegance with appropriate dignity. We say, a speaker delivers his address with grace; a man performs his part with grace. 14. Natural or acquired excellence; any endowment that recommends the possessor to others; as the graces of wit and learning. 15. Beauty; embellishment; in general, whatever adorns and recommends to favor; sometimes, a single beauty. 16. Beauty deified; among pagans, a goddess. The graces were three in number, Aglaia, Thalia, and Euphrosyne, the constant attendants of Venus. 17. Virtue physical; as the grace of plants. [Not used.] 18. The title of a duke or an archbishop, and formerly of the king of England, meaning your goodness or clemency. His Grace the Duke of York. Your Grace will please to accept my thanks. 19. A short prayer before or after meat; a blessing asked, or thanks rendered. 20. In music, graces signifies turns, trills and shakes introduced for embellishment. Day in grace, in theology, time of probation, when an offer is made to sinners. Days in grace, in commerce, the days immediately following the day when a bill or note becomes due, which days are allowed to the debtor or payor to make payment in. In Great Britain and the United States the days of grace are three, but in other countries more; the usages of merchants being different. GRACE, v.t. To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify. |