ingrave

English

Etymology

in- +‎ grave. Compare engrave.

Verb

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, , 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.

References

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

Anagrams

• Ginevra, avering, reaving, vaginer, vinegar

Dutch

Verb

ingrave

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

Anagrams

• grave in