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Definition of Percase
1. adv. Perhaps; perchance.
Definition of Percase
1. Adverb. (obsolete) perhaps; perchance ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Percase
1. perchance [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Percase
Literary usage of Percase
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"The very terms, and especially the humorous repetition of "percase," intimate
the discretion which the court reserves to itself, even in making an order ..."
2. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"The very terms, and especially the humorous repetition of "percase," intimate
the discretion which the court reserves to itself, even in making an order ..."
3. A Discourse of the Common Weal of this Realm of England by Elizabeth Lamond, William Cunningham (1893)
"I haue percase waded further then my parte was, to speake so 25 farre to tell that
... This good percase it may doe, that heare of youe, 30 maister doctor, ..."
4. An English Grammar: Methodical, Analytical, and Historical. With a Treatise by Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Maetzner (1874)
"The preposition is fused with abstract nouns, as in perchance, perhaps, percase,
peradventure, perforce. I'd joy to see thee break a lance, Albeit against ..."
5. The History of the Reformation of the Church of England by Gilbert Burnet, Edward Nares (1843)
"And if percase ye will say (as is not unlike but ye will say, minded as ye were
wont to be) that the matter be not like, for the Law of God, in your opinion ..."
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