engrasp

English

Etymology

From en- +‎ grasp?

Verb

engrasp (third-person singular simple present engrasps, present participle engrasping, simple past and past participle engrasped)

1. (obsolete) To grasp; to grip, to take hold of.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Now gan Pyrochles wex as wood as hee,
     And him affronted with impatient might :
     So both together fiers engrasped bee ,
     Whiles Guyon standing by their uncouth strife does see

References

• “engrasp”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Pranges, spanger