† ˈkaser Obs.
Forms: 1 caser, 1–2 (5) casere, 1–3 kasere, 3 kaserr, 5 kasar, 7 cazard.
[OE. cásere, repr. the Comm. Teut. type kaisar, ad. L. Cæsar or Gr. καῖσαρ, the ai giving OE. á, as in native words. The southern ME. form would have been cōser; but the word is known only in the northern form, having been early supplanted by the newer adoptions Kaiser and Cæsar.
The ending is conformed to the -ere of agent-nouns like dómere, bócere, etc.; cf. ON. keisari. But the Lindisf. Gosp. Gloss. has caser as dat. and acc. (dat. also casere, -eri, -ari), and in the genitive cæsares, casseres, cessares.]
The Emperor, an emperor; = Kaiser.
| c 888 K. ælfred Boeth. xxxviii. §1 Þæs kaseres nama wæs Agamenon. a 900 Martyrol. Fragm. in O.E. Texts 178 Datianus se casere. c 950 Lindisf. Gosp. John xix. 15 Nabbo we cyning buta ðone caser. a 1154 O.E. Chron. an. 1106 ᵹewinn betwux þam Casere of Sexlande and his sunu. c 1200 Ormin 8329 Þe Romanisshe king..Þatt ta wass Kaserr oferr hemm. Ibid. 9172 He wass sett to beon Kasere i Rome riche. c 1425 Wyntoun Cron. v. ix. 2742 Casere, kyng, na empriowre. c 1460 Towneley Myst. xiv. 220 That prynce that shalle ouer com in hy kasar and kyng. a 1605 Montgomerie Misc. Poems iii. 40 Sho [Fortune] counts not kings nor cazards mair nor cuiks. Ibid. xiv. 43. |
| Comb. c 1200 Ormin 3270 An Romanisshe Kaserrking Wass Augusstuss ȝehatenn. Ibid. 3294, etc. |