grace sb. (1 “do grace” occurs also in the sense ‘do a kindness, confer a favour’ cf. 3; 5 is only S. and is an extension of the religious sense ‘favour of God’)
1.
“do” (a
person or thing) “,”
reflect credit on, set in a good light, embellish
1H4 II. i. 79
“to do the profession
some ,”
V. iv. 161
“if a lie may do thee
,”
Ham. I. i. 131, Sonn. xxviii. 10,
cxxxii. 11 “mourning doth thee
;—in of,”
in honour of MND. IV. i.
140.
2.
ornament
H5 II. Chor. 28
“this grace of
kings.”
3.
favour LLL. V. ii. 128, H8 III. ii. 167,
Mac. I. vi. 30
“shall continue our g-s
towards him”
; good opinion
Ado II. iii. 32
“come in my
grace.”
4.
fortune, hap, luck
Gent. III. i. 146
“curse the ,”
Meas. I. iv. 69, Wint. V. ii. 125, Ham. I. iii. 53.
5.
the source of grace,
God, Ado II. i. 316, All'sW. I. iii. 228,
II. i. 163,
Wint. I. ii. 80
“ to
boot!,”
Mac. V. vii. 101 [viii. 72].
6.
beneficent virtue or
efficacy Rom. II. iii. 15; cf.
HERB-GRACE.
7.
sense of duty or
propriety
Gent. V. iv. 165
“the boy hath in him:
he blushes,”
AYL. III. iv. 2
“have the to consider that
tears do not become a man”
; virtue
Mac. IV. iii. 91
“the king-becoming
g-”
8.
serving to form
complimentary periphrases; used ludicrously in
MND. V. i. 199
“I am thy lover's ”
(=thy lover),
1H6 V. iii. 33
“the devil's
grace.”
9.
mercy, pardon Meas. V. i. 375,
3H6 II. ii. 81
“kneel for ,”
Lr. III. ii. 59
“cry These . . . sum
moners ”
