chear

chear (uncountable)

1. Obsolete form of cheer.
   • 1789, William Blake, “Introduction”, in Songs of Innocence:

     Piping down the valleys wild /Piping songs of pleasant glee / On a cloud I saw a child. / And he laughing said to me: / "Pipe a song about a Lamb!" / So I piped with merry chear.

chear (third-person singular simple present chears, present participle chearing, simple past and past participle cheared)

1. Obsolete form of cheer.
   • 1667, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, 1666. […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC, stanza 242, page 61:

     He chears the fearful, and commends the bold, / And makes deſpairers hope for good ſucceſs.

   • 1673 May (first performance), John Dryden, Amboyna. A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1673, →OCLC, Act III, page 31:

     WHo ever ſaw a noble ſight, / That never view’d a brave Sea Fight: / Hang up your bloody Colours in the Aire, / Up with your Fights and your Nettings prepare, / Your Merry Mates chear, with a luſty bold ſpright, / Now each Man his brindice, and then to the Fight, […]

   • 1695, Richard Blackmore, “Book I”, in Prince Arthur. An Heroick Poem. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Awnsham and John Churchil […], →OCLC, page 13:

     He opens all the Magazins above, / Of boundleſs Goodneſs and Eternal Love, / From theſe rich Stores of Heav’n, theſe ſacred Springs / Of everlaſting Joy and Peace, he brings / Ambroſial Food, and rich Nectarean Wine, / Which chear pure Souls, and nouriſh Life Divine.

   • 1713, [Alexander] Pope, Windsor-Forest. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, page 57:

     The youth ruſh eager to the ſylvan war; / Swarm o’er the lawns, the foreſt walks ſurround, / Rowze the fleet hart, and chear the opening hound.

   • 1748, James Thomson, “Canto II”, in The Castle of Indolence: […], London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, stanza XXXVI, page 59:

     And ſtill their long Reſearches met in This, / This Truth of Truths, which nothing can refel: / “From Virtue’s Fount the pureſt Joys out-well, / “Sweet Rills of Thought that chear the conſcious Soul; […]”

   • 1794, Charlotte Smith, chapter I, in The Banished Man. […], volume I, London: […] T[homas] Cadell, Jun. and W[illiam] Davies, (successors to Mr. [Thomas] Cadell) […], →OCLC, page 6:

     The Baroneſs de Roſenheim renewed her exertions to chear the ſpirits of her dejected daughter, as in the great gothic hall, where they uſually eat, they took their melancholy ſupper.

• Arche, REACH, acher, arche, chare, rache, reach

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish كار (ḱar), from Persian کار (kâr).

chear n (plural chearuri)

1. (obsolete) gain, profit

• chear in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN