Obs. Also 6–7 ingravery, -ie. [f. as prec.: see -ERY.] The art or work of the engraver; concr. the productions of the engraver’s art; also (rarely) an individual work of the kind, a piece of engraving.

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1566.  Painter, Pal. Pleas. (18[?]), II. 533.

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1611.  Cotgr., Manequinage, anticke ingrauerie, or caruing, in Wainscot, or Stone-worke.

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1638.  R. Baker, trans. Balzac’s Lett. (1654), IV. 44. He hath in charge to present you with my … small Ingravery.

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1676.  Phil. Trans., XI. 554. The Cabinets, copper Cuts and Engravery of Monsieur de Marolles.

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a. 1682.  Sir T. Browne, Tracts (1684), 4. They wonder to find the Art of Ingravery so ancient upon pretious Stones and Signets. Ibid., 210. Some handsome Engraveries and Medals, of Justinus and Justinianus.

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