{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "greɪs" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (RP)", "url": "" }, { "lang": "Audio (GA)", "url": "" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English grace, from Old French grace (modern French grâce), from Latin grātia (“kindness, favour, esteem”), from grātus (“pleasing”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- (“to praise, welcome”); compare grateful.\nThe word displaced the native Middle English held, hield (“grace”) (from Old English held, hyld (“grace”)), Middle English este (“grace, favour, pleasure”) (from Old English ēste (“grace, kindness, favour”)), Middle English athmede(n) (“grace”) (from Old English ēadmēdu (“grace”)), Middle English are, ore (“grace, mercy, honour”) (from Old English ār (“honour, grace, kindness, mercy”))." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(countable, uncountable) Charming, pleasing qualities.\nThe Princess brought grace to an otherwise dull and boring party.\n1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations\nStudy gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.\n1783, Hugh Blair, \"Critical Examniation of the Style of Mr. Addison in No. 411 of The Spectator\" in Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres\nI have formerly given the general character of Mr. Addison's style and manner as natural and unaffected, easy and polite, and full of those graces which a flowery imagination diffuses over writing." }, { "mean": "(countable) A short prayer of thanks before or after a meal.\nIt has become less common to say grace before having dinner." }, { "mean": "(countable, card games) In the games of patience or solitaire: a special move that is normally against the rules." }, { "mean": "(countable, music) A grace note.\n1683, John Playford, An Introduction to the Skill of Musick: In Three Books, page 47:The Trill being the most usual Grace, is usually made in Closes, Cadences, and when on a long Note Exclamation or Passion is expressed, there the Trill is made in the latter part of such Note; but most usually upon binding Notes and such Notes as precede the closing Note." }, { "mean": "(uncountable) Elegant movement; balance or poise.\nThe dancer moved with grace and strength." }, { "mean": "(uncountable, finance) An allowance of time granted to a debtor during which he or she is free of at least part of his normal obligations towards the creditor.\nThe repayment of the loan starts after a three-year grace.\n1990, Claude de Bèze, 1688 revolution in Siam: the memoir of Father de Bèze, s.j, translated by E. W. Hutchinson, University Press, page 153:\nWith mounting anger the King denounced the pair, both father and son, and was about to condemn them to death when his strength gave out. Faint and trembling he was unable to walk and the sword fell from his hands as he murmured: 'May the Protector of the Buddhist Faith grant me but seven more days grace of life to be quit of this disloyal couple, father and son'." }, { "mean": "(uncountable, theology) Free and undeserved favour, especially of God; unmerited divine assistance given to humans for their regeneration or sanctification, or for resisting sin.\n1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide\nWhen she sang in the kirk, folk have told me that they had a foretaste of the musick of the New Jerusalem, and when she came in by the village of Caulds old men stottered to their doors to look at her. Moreover, from her earliest days the bairn had some glimmerings of grace." }, { "mean": "An act or decree of the governing body of an English university." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify.\nHe graced the room with his presence.\nHe graced the room by simply being there.\nHis portrait graced a landing on the stairway.\nc. 1699 – 1703, Alexander Pope, “The First Book of Statius His Thebais”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: W Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, , published 1717, →OCLC:Great Jove and Phoebus graced his noble line.\n1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies.  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :We are graced with wreaths of victory." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To dignify or raise by an act of favour; to honour.\n1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, , London: Adam Islip, →OCLC:\nHe might, at his pleasure, grace or disgrace whom he would in court." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To supply with heavenly grace.\n1612–1626, , “(please specify the page)”, in , volume (please specify |volume=II, V, or VI), London, →OCLC:\nThy first publique miracle graceth a marriage" }, { "mean": "(transitive, music) To add grace notes, cadenzas, etc., to.\n1987, L. E. McCullough, The Complete Irish Tin Whistle Tutor (New & Revised) (page 22)\nFor D and E, the G and A fingers are generally used for gracing, though E is sometimes more conveniently graced by F#." } ] }, { "name": "Further_reading", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "grace on Wikipedia.Wikipedia" } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "추가_판독", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }