单词 | insculp |
释义 | insculpv. Now rare or Obsolete. 1. transitive. To carve, engrave, or sculpture (upon something, as a figure or inscription upon stone). ΘΚΠ 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 ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1871) III. 11 Diuerse carectes to be insculpte in gemmes. 1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. S iv More lyvely..than any forme may be insculped upon metall or marble. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice ii. vii. 57 A coyne that beares the figure of an Angell stampt in gold, but thats insculpt vpon. 1604 M. Drayton Moyses i. 22 Which he insculped in two likely stones, For rareness of inualuable price. 1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Insculpe, to cut or carue in. 1665 J. Webb Vindic. Stone-Heng (1725) 162 By insculping some short Inscription. 1665 J. Webb Vindic. Stone-Heng (1725) 190 They made..the Architrave..plain and flat, and thereon insculpt them. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) To Insculp, to engrave, carve, or cut. 1814 R. Southey Carmina Aulica in Poet. Wks. III. 315 Bearing lyingly the libell'd name Of Lawrence, impudently there insculpt. 2. a. To shape artistically by cutting. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > sculpt or carve [verb (transitive)] behewc1314 entailc1394 chisel1517 to cut out1548 insculp1578 cut1600 sculpturea1684 sculp1784 sculpt1864 under-carve1904 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 14v The inner seate..of the scull, where Os Cuneale is insculped like the maner of a seat, or stoole. 1653 R. Saunders Physiognomie ii. 254 The ears neatly insculped, of mean bigness. b. To adorn with carved figures or inscriptions; to sculpture (stone, etc.): = carve v. 5a, 6b. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > sculpt or carve [verb (transitive)] > decorate with sculpture or carving carvec1384 sculpturea1660 insculp1665 1665 J. Webb Vindic. Stone-Heng (1725) 135 Stones..were insculpt with Antique Runick or Gothick Characters. 1830 W. Phillips Mt. Sinai iv. 6 The sacred Tables..Fresh from their heavenly quarry, and insculpt Of God's own hand immediate. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.?a1475 |
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