v. [f. EN-1 + GRASP.] trans. To take, or try to take, in one’s grasp; to embrace, grasp, seize. Also fig.

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1593.  Nashe, Christ’s T. (1613), 123. Who shall engraspe and bound the heauens body?

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1667.  H. More, Div. Dial., V. xviii. (1713), 469. Without any design of engrasping great Mysteries.

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1855.  Singleton, Virgil, I. 274. Ulysses, too … engrasped The holy image.

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