Instill vs Engrave - What's the difference?
instill | engrave |
To cause a quality to become part of someone's nature.
To pour in (medicine, for example) drop by drop.
(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:
As verbs the difference between instill and engrave
is that instill is to cause a quality to become part of someone's nature while engrave is to carve text or symbols into (something), usually for the purposes of identification or art.instill
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Alternative forms
* instil UKVerb
(en verb)- It is important to instill discipline in a child at an early age.
See also
* infuseengrave
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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 [...].
