Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To engrave; carve.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb Obs. & R. To engrave; to carve; to sculpture.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete, rare To
engrave ; tocarve ; tosculpture .
Etymologies
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Latin insculpere: compare French insculper. See in- and sculptor.
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Examples
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He felt that it was his part to chuse whom he would resemble, yet he remained unresolved, though the spectator of an hundred shades of renown, among which glided by Alexander, Alcibiades, and Hephestion: at length appeared the supernatural effigy of a man, whose perfections human artist never could depict or insculp -- Demetrius, the son of Antigonus.
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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