• Original language:French
  • Original form and meaning:chasser 'hunt (animals), expel, dismiss'


(Note: If the status is not specifically indicated then the word is stylistically neutral and generally used; if earlier meaning and status equals current use the former may be expressed by writing "dito". Cf. also the project guidelines.)


Language Form Date of Borrowing (and Obsolescence) Current Meaning and Status Earlier Meanings and Statusses Source
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English chase 13th c. 1. (a) 'the action of chasing or pursuing with the intent to catch, pursuit, hunting', (b) 'the occupation or pastime of hunting wild animals for profit or (more usually) sport', (c) 'pursuit of an enemy', rout', (d) 'in naval warfare: the pursuit of a ship', 2. 'the right of hunting over a tract of country, also, that of keeping beasts of the chase therein', 3. 'a hunting ground, a tract of unenclosed land reserved for breeding wild animals, unenclosed part-land', 4. 'haste, hurry' (dial.) '...' OED
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German schassen Late 18th c. 1. 'to dismiss disreputable ', 2. 'to agitate, to hunt' (soldier's slang), 'to dismiss, to throw out, to expel', 3. 'to send so. packing (school, servants)' (dial.), 4. 'to expel so. from school' (dial.), 5. 'to hurry, to run' (dial.), 6. 'to displace so. of office, to abandon a girl' '...' Birken-Silvermann 2003: 131
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