Definition of "enchase"

enchase

verb
third-person singular simple present enchases, present participle enchasing, simple past and past participle enchased
1. To set (a gemstone etc.) into.
2. (figuratively) To be a setting for.
  Quotations
  My ragged rimes are all too rude and bace, / Her heauenly lineaments for to enchace.
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, page 177
3. To decorate with jewels, or with inlaid ornament.
  Quotations
  Thy Garments ſhall be made of Medean ſilke,Enchaſt with precious iewels of mine owne: […]
  c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, Act I, scene ii
4. To cut or carve, as with a weapon.
  Quotations
  They tooke their ſwords againe, and each enchaſte / Deepe wounds in the ſoft fleſh of his ſtrong foe […]
  1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Twelfth Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, page 224