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Ingrave vs Engrave - What's the difference?

ingrave | engrave |

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is that ingrave is obsolete form of lang=en while engrave is to carve text or symbols into (something), usually for the purposes of identification or art.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

English

Verb

(ingrav)
    • (Tennyson)
  • * 1747', William Faithorne, ''Sculptura Historico-technica: Or the History and Art of '''Ingraving (etc.) , page 11,
    • .
  • * 1840 , Bejamin Barnard, William Henry Black, Illustrations of Ancient State and Chivalry from Manuscripts Preserved in the Ashmolean Museum , footnote, page 93,
    • 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.
  • * 1991 , ], 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.
  • (obsolete) To bury.
    • (Heywood)
    (Webster 1913) ----

    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. 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.
  • :
    • 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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