Obs. [a. F. espace:—L. spatium: see SPACE.] = SPACE.
1483. Caxton, Gold. Leg., 340/3. In that espace of tyme the kynge and mo than lx thousand men were baptysed. Ibid. (c. 1490), Blanchardyn, 146. We .. haue ben a longe espace wyth hym.
