scace

English

Adjective

scace (comparative scacer, superlative scacest)

1. (obsolete or dialectal) Alternative form of scarce

Adverb

scace (not comparable)

1. (obsolete or dialectal) Alternative form of scarce
   • 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, The Actes off the Apostles xxvij:[7], folio cxcxv, verso:

     and when we had ſayled ſlowly many dayes / and ſcace were come over agaynſt Gnydon (be cauſe the wynde with ſtode vs) we ſaled harde by the coſtes off Candy / over agaynſte Salmo.

   • 1568, The Holie Bible: conteynyng the Olde Testament and the Newe […] (the Bishops' Bible), London: R. Iugge, Printer to the Queene, Romanes v:7, folio xcij, recto:

     Nowe ſcace wyll any man dye foꝛ the righteous: Yet peraduenture foꝛ the good ſome men durſt dye.

Middle English

Adjective

scace

1. Alternative form of scars

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɑ.ke/

Verb

sċace

1. inflection of sċacan:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. singular present subjunctive