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Webster 1913 Edition


Encheason

{

En-che′son

,

En-chea′son

}
,
Noun.
[OF.
enchaison
, fr. L.
incidere
to happen;
in + cadere
to fall.]
Occasion, cause, or reason.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

Webster 1828 Edition


Encheason

ENCHE'ASON

,
Noun.
Cause; occasion.

Definition 2024


encheason

encheason

English

Noun

encheason (plural encheasons)

  1. (obsolete) A cause, reason.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:
      Certes (said he) well mote I shame to tell / The fond encheason, that me hither led.