Verb

(es)

(senseid) To write (a document) in large, aesthetic, and legible lettering; to make a finalized copy of.

* Nathaniel Hawthorne

some period long past, when clerks engrossed their stiff and formal chirography on more substantial materials

* De Quincey

laws that may be engrossed on a finger nail

(transitive, business, obsolete) To buy up wholesale, especially to buy the whole supply of (a commodity etc.).

To monopolize; to concentrate (something) in the single possession of someone, especially unfairly.

* 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :

After which time the Popes of Rome, engrossing what they pleas'd of Politicall rule into their owne hands, extended their dominion over mens eyes, as they had before over their judgements, burning and prohibiting to be read, what they fancied not

* 2007 , John Burrow, A History of Histories , Penguin 2009, pp. 125-6:

Octavian then engrosses for himself proconsular powers for ten years in all the provinces where more than one legion was stationed, giving him effective control of the army.

To completely engage the attention of.

She seems to be''' completely '''engrossed in that book.

(obsolete) To thicken; to condense.

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:

As, when a foggy mist hath overcast / The face of heven, and the cleare ayre engroste , / The world in darkenes dwels

To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity.

* Spenser

waves engrossed with mud

* Shakespeare

not sleeping, to engross his idle body

(obsolete) To amass.

* Shakespeare

to engross up glorious deeds on my behalf

Verb

(mesmeriz)

To exercise mesmerism on; to spellbind; to enthrall.

* , chapter=4

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