ingrave

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English

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Etymology

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From in- +‎ grave. Compare engrave.

Verb

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ingrave (third-person singular simple present ingraves, present participle ingraving, simple past and past participle ingraved)

  1. 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.
  2. (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.

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Verb

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ingrave

  1. (dated or formal) singular dependent-clause present subjunctive of ingraven

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