insculpt

English

Adjective

insculpt (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete, poetic) sculpted; carved
    • 1767, John Weever, William Tooke, Antient Funeral Monuments, of Great-Britain, Ireland, and the Islands Adjacent:
      In the belfry, I read this verse insculpt or cast in the metal, about the circumference of the bell: []
    • 1828, Robert Southey, Epistle to Allan Cunningham:
      And now is there a third derivative
      From Mr. Colburn's composite, which late
      The Arch-Pirate Galignani hath prefixed,
      A spurious portrait to a faithless life,
      And bearing lyingly the libelled name
      Of Lawrence, impudently there insculpt.

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