Definition of "chace"

chace

verb
third-person singular simple present chaces, present participle chacing, simple past and past participle chaced
1. (obsolete) To chase; to pursue.
  Quotations
  The suddenness with which the solemn quiet had been broken in upon, had chaced from his remembrance the horrid phantom;—it now recurred to it, with two-fold force, and a shudder crept all over him.
  1807, [Miss Guion], chapter VI, in The Three Germans. Mysteries Exemplified in the Life of Holstein of Lutztein. A German Romance. […], volume I, London: […] J[ames] F[letcher] Hughes, […], page 124
noun
plural chaces
1. (obsolete) A chase.
  Quotations
  We hiss'd along the polish'd ice, in games / Confederate, imitative of the chace
  1850, The Prelude, Book I, William Wordsworth, (Please provide the book title or journal name)