insculp
English
Etymology
From Latin insculpere. Compare French insculper. See in- and sculptor.
Verb
insculp (third-person singular simple present insculps, present participle insculping, simple past and past participle insculped)
- (obsolete, rare) To engrave; to carve; to sculpture.
- c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:
- A coyne that beares the figure of an Angell
Stampt in gold, but that's insculpt vpon:
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “insculp”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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