engross

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Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English engrossen, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "xno" is not valid. See WT:LOL. engrosser (“to gather in large quantities, draft something in final form”); partly from the phrase en gros (“in bulk, in quantity, at wholesale”), from en- + gros; and partly from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "ML." is not valid. See WT:LOL. ingrossō (“thicken, write something large and in bold lettering”, v.), from in- + grossus (“great, big, thick”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old High German grōz (“big, thick, coarse”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *grautaz (“large, great, thick, coarse grained, unrefined”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *ghrewə- (“to fell, put down, fall in”). More at in-, gross.

Pronunciation

  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "UK" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ɛnˈɡɹəʊs/, /ɛŋˈɡɹəʊs/
  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "US" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ɛnˈɡɹoʊs/, /ɛŋˈɡɹoʊs/
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  • Rhymes: -əʊs

Verb

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  2. (transitive, now law) To write (a document) in large, aesthetic, and legible lettering; to make a finalized copy of.
    • Nathaniel Hawthorne
      some period long past, when clerks engrossed their stiff and formal chirography on more substantial materials
    • De Quincey
      laws that may be engrossed upon a finger nail
  3. (transitive, business, obsolete) To buy up wholesale, especially to buy the whole supply of (a commodity etc.).
  4. (transitive) To monopolize; to concentrate (something) in the single possession of someone, especially unfairly.
    • 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica:
      After which time the Popes of Rome, engrossing what they pleas'd of Politicall rule into their owne hands, extended their dominion over mens eyes, as they had before over their judgements, burning and prohibiting to be read, what they fancied not […]
    • 2007, John Burrow, A History of Histories, Penguin 2009, pp. 125-6:
      Octavian then engrosses for himself proconsular powers for ten years in all the provinces where more than one legion was stationed, giving him effective control of the army.
  5. (transitive) To completely engage the attention of.
    She seems to be completely engrossed in that book.
  6. (transitive, obsolete) To thicken; to condense.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.4:
      As, when a foggy mist hath overcast / The face of heven, and the cleare ayre engroste, / The world in darkenes dwels […]
  7. (transitive, obsolete) To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity.
    • Edmund Spenser
      waves […] engrossed with mud
    • Shakespeare
      not sleeping, to engross his idle body
  8. (obsolete) To amass.
    • Shakespeare
      to engross up glorious deeds on my behalf

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Coordinate terms

  • (to write out in large characters): longhand

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