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See also: Ingrave
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From in- + grave. Compare engrave.
Verb
[edit]ingrave (third-person singular simple present ingraves, present participle ingraving, simple past and past participle ingraved)
- Obsolete form of engrave.
- 1747, William Faithorne, Sculptura Historico-technica: Or the History and Art of Ingraving (etc.), page 11:
- […] M. Anthony Bos, who both etched and ingraved in a Stile of his own, did not ſucceed ſo well; […] .
- 1840, Benjamin Barnard, William Henry Black, Illustrations of Ancient State and Chivalry from Manuscripts Preserved in the Ashmolean Museum, footnote, page 93:
- Even in Ashmole's plate of the feast of Saint George, in the Hall at Windsor, (ingraved by Hollar,) the Knights may be seen, feeding themselves with their fingers: one only appears to be using a fork or spoon.
- 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “Œnone”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 121:
- Behold this fruit, whose gleaming rind ingrav'n / "For the most fair,"' would seem to award it thine, […]
- 1991, Giorgio Vasari, Julia Conaway Bondanella, Peter Bondanella (translators), The Lives of the Artists, [from 1550, G. Vasari, Le Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori da Cimabue insino a' tempi nostri], page 91,
- This work, with its border decorations ingraved with festoons of fruit and animals all cast in metal, cost twenty-two thousand florins, while the bronze doors themselves weighed thirty-four thousand pounds.
- (obsolete) To bury.
- 1655, Thomas Heywood, Fortune by Land and Sea:
- But if these black adventures I survive, / Ev'n till this mortal body be ingrav'd, / You shall be lord of that which you have sav'd.
References
[edit]- “ingrave”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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