ingrave

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Definition of ingrave

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (obsolete, transitive)To bury; to place in a grave.
    “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.”
    “The heavy chardge that nature byndes me to I have perform'd; ingrav'd my brother is: I woulde to God (to ease my ceaseless wo) My wretched bones intombed were with his.”
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verb

  1. (obsolete, transitive)To bury; to place in a grave.
    “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.”
    “The heavy chardge that nature byndes me to I have perform'd; ingrav'd my brother is: I woulde to God (to ease my ceaseless wo) My wretched bones intombed were with his.”
  2. (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete form of engrave.
    “[…]M. Anthony Bos, who both etched and ingraved in a Stile of his own, did not ſucceed ſo well;[…].”
    “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.”
    “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.”

name

  1. A village in Herongate and Ingrave parish, Brentwood borough, Essex, England (OS grid ref TQ6292).

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Etymology

From in- + grave. Compare engrave.

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