Obs. Also 7 in-. [perh. f. prec.; perh. an alteration of ENGRAVE, due to analogy of vbs. with prefix EN-1 and suffix -EN5.] = ENGRAVE. lit. and fig.
1605. Camden, Rem., 27. A name which was ingravened in the revestiarie of the Temple.
1650. T. Bayly, Herba Parietis (1679), 59. To engraven a similitude.
1713. Darrell, Gentleman Instructed, II. ii. (ed. 5), 124 (D.). Our Maker … has also engraven’d the Knowledge of himself in our Souls.
1713. Lond. Gaz., 5165/4. Lost … Two silver Trencher Plates of Her Majesty’s Engraven’d A. R.
