† engravenadj.
Obsolete.
= engraved adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > incising or intaglio > [adjective]
written?1440
engraven1583
lapidary1724
intagliated1782
engraileda1806
incised1807
lapideous1807
graven1821
descript1863
lapidarian1864
pointillé1884
1583 S. Harsnett Serm. Ezek. (1658) 130 God..had his Son, the Ingraven Image of his Father.
1588 A. Fraunce Lawiers Logike i. i. f. 2 That ingraven gift and facultie of wit and reason.
1593 Tell-Trothes New-yeares Gift (1876) 34 But engrauen thoughtes will not be rubbed forth.
1642 D. Rogers Naaman 535 Was not the Temple full of Lyons and Cherubims, and ingraven forms?
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 325/2 I have procured..some..since my former engraven ones.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
† engravenv.
Obsolete.
= engrave v. literal and figurative.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > incising or intaglio > incise (marks or figures) [verb (transitive)]
writeeOE
gravec1275
raspc1400
insculp?a1475
insculpt1487
scrape1532
sculp?1533
engrave1542
enchase1579
incarve1596
engraven1605
trencha1616
scratch1644
style1864
lithograph1872
scribe1896
1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 27 A name which was ingravened in the revestiarie of the Temple.
1650 T. Bayly Herba Parietis 59 To engraven a similitude.
1704 Gentleman Instructed 250 Our Maker..has also engraven'd the knowledge of Himself in our souls.
1713 London Gaz. 5165/4 Lost..Two silver Trencher Plates of Her Majesty's Engraven'd A.R.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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