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)

1. (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

• “insculp”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• sculpin, unclips