Graven vs Engrave - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between graven and engrave

is that graven is past participle of lang=en while engrave is to carve text or symbols into (something), usually for the purposes of identification or art.

As an adjective graven

is carved, engraved.

graven

English

Adjective

(-)

carved, engraved

* Old Testament (Exodus 20:4 KJV)

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image.

Something fashioned by man, or something man-made. Anything made by man's hands.

Something that is not alive, but made dead, from the grave.

Verb

(head)

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engrave

English

Alternative forms

* (l)

Etymology 1

From earlier ingrave, equivalent to . More at (l).

Verb

(engrav)

(lb) To carve text or symbols into (something), usually for the purposes of identification or art.

*:Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ ("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.

Synonyms

* carve, etch, inscribe

Etymology 2

From .

Verb

(engrav)

(obsolete) To put in a grave, to bury.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:

So both agree their bodies to engraue ; / The great earthes wombe they open to the sky [...].

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