Ingrave

Pronunciation varies by accent · verb

Meaning

(obsolete, transitive) To bury; to place in a grave..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete, transitive) To bury; to place in a grave.
2. Obsolete form of engrave.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

[…]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, […]

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• ingraves
• ingraving
• ingraved

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