v. Obs. Also 6 acrase, 6–7 accrase, accraise, accraze. [Either formed on Eng. vb. CRAZE, with A- pref. 10, or a. Fr. acrase-r (Cotgr. accrazer) var. of écraser (see A- pref. 9) f. a simple *craser, cogn. w. Eng. CRAZE, CRASH, f. Norse kras-a, krasa, to shiver, crash. A- refashioned as AC- in 6 after words f. L.] To weaken, impair, enfeeble.
1549. Cheke, Hurt of Sedition (1641), 38. With cold in the nights which acrazeth the body.
1577–87. Holinshed, Chron., III. 1049/2. By glutting of meals which weakeneth the bodie, and with cold in the nights which accraseth the bodie.
