Ingrave vs Engrave - What's the difference?
ingrave | engrave |
* 1747', William Faithorne, ''Sculptura Historico-technica: Or the History and Art of '''Ingraving (etc.) ,
* 1840 , Bejamin Barnard, William Henry Black, Illustrations of Ancient State and Chivalry from Manuscripts Preserved in the Ashmolean Museum , footnote,
* 1991 , ],
(obsolete) To bury.
(lb) To carve text or symbols into (something), usually for the purposes of identification or art.
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*:Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ΒΆ ("I never) understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."
(lb) To carve (something) into a material.
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(obsolete) To put in a grave, to bury.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:
Engrave is a alternative form of ingrave.
In obsolete terms the difference between ingrave and engrave
is that ingrave is to bury while engrave is to put in a grave, to bury.As verbs the difference between ingrave and engrave
is that ingrave is obsolete form of lang=en while engrave is to carve text or symbols into (something), usually for the purposes of identification or art.ingrave
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Verb
(ingrav)- (Tennyson)
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- 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.
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- 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.
- (Heywood)
engrave
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Alternative forms
* (l)Etymology 1
From earlier ingrave, equivalent to . More at (l).Verb
(engrav)Synonyms
* carve, etch, inscribeEtymology 2
From .Verb
(engrav)- So both agree their bodies to engraue ; / The great earthes wombe they open to the sky [...].