insculp
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin insculpere. Compare French insculper. See in- and sculptor.
Verb edit
insculp (third-person singular simple present insculps, present participle insculping, simple past and past participle insculped)
- (archaic, rare) To engrave; to carve; to sculpt.
- 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:
References edit
- “insculp”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.