Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to chiaus
Participle: chiaused
Gerund: chiausing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | chiaus |
| you | chiaus |
| he;she;it | chiauses |
| we | chiaus |
| you | chiaus |
| they | chiaus |
Perfect
| I | have chiaused |
| you | have chiaused |
| he;she;it | has chiaused |
| we | have chiaused |
| you | have chiaused |
| they | have chiaused |
Past
| I | chiaused |
| you | chiaused |
| he;she;it | chiaused |
| we | chiaused |
| you | chiaused |
| they | chiaused |
Pluperfect
| I | had chiaused |
| you | had chiaused |
| he;she;it | had chiaused |
| we | had chiaused |
| you | had chiaused |
| they | had chiaused |
Future
| I | will chiaus |
| you | will chiaus |
| he;she;it | will chiaus |
| we | will chiaus |
| you | will chiaus |
| they | will chiaus |
Future Perfect
| I | will have chiaused |
| you | will have chiaused |
| he;she;it | will have chiaused |
| we | will have chiaused |
| you | will have chiaused |
| they | will have chiaused |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | chiaus |
| you | chiaus |
| he;she;it | chiaus |
| we | chiaus |
| you | chiaus |
| they | chiaus |
Perfect
| I | have chiaused |
| you | have chiaused |
| he;she;it | have chiaused |
| we | have chiaused |
| you | have chiaused |
| they | have chiaused |
Imperfect
| I | chiaused |
| you | chiaused |
| he;she;it | chiaused |
| we | chiaused |
| you | chiaused |
| they | chiaused |
Pluperfect
| I | had chiaused |
| you | had chiaused |
| he;she;it | had chiaused |
| we | had chiaused |
| you | had chiaused |
| they | had chiaused |
Conditional
Present
| I | would chiaus |
| you | would chiaus |
| he;she;it | would chiaus |
| we | would chiaus |
| you | would chiaus |
| they | would chiaus |
Perfect
| I | would have chiaused |
| you | would have chiaused |
| he;she;it | would have chiaused |
| we | would have chiaused |
| you | would have chiaused |
| they | would have chiaused |
Imperative
| you | chiaus |
| we | Let's chiaus |
| you | chiaus |
Verbs conjugated like 'chiaus'
abash,
abolish,
abroach,
accomplish,
accroach,
address,
admix,
admonish,
ado,
adpress,
affamish,
affix,
alloo,
amass,
ambush,
anguish,
annex,
appeach,
appears,
approach, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'chiaus'
chaun,
chiack,
chorus,
alias,
bias,
callus,
campus,
cass,
caucus,
cause,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
First attested c. 1600, from Ottoman Turkish چاوش (çavuş, “messenger, herald, licitor, sergeant”). Cognate with Turkish çavuş, Old Turkic 𐰲𐰉𐰾 (čabïš, “army commander”). Doublet of chouse.
Sample Sentences
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The word chouse appears to have been introduced into the language at the beginning of the seventeenth century. In 1609, a Chiaus sent by Sir Robert Shirley, from Constantinople to London, had chiaused (or choused) the Turkish and Persian merchants out of ₤4,000, before the arrival of his employer, and had decamped. The affair was quite recent in 1610, when Jonson's "Alchemist" appeared, in which it is thus alluded to:[…] [1893, Mynors Bright, Henry Benjamin Wheatley, editors, The diary of Samuel Pepys, for the first time fully transcribed from the shorthand manuscript in the Pepysian library, Magdalene College, Cambridge, volume 5, New York: G. E. Groscup, →OCLC, pages 117–118, note 2:]