intergraven

English

Etymology

inter- + graven

Adjective

intergraven (not comparable)

  1. (rare) engraved or carved between
    • 1750, The Holy Bible  [] Newly reviſed, and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures. (Douay–Rheims Bible, Challoner Revision), 3 Kings 7:28, page 144:
      And the work itſelf of the baſes, was entergraven: and there were gravings between the joinings.
    • 1903 December, William M. Beauchamp, “Metallic Ornaments of the New York Indians”, in New York State Museum Bulletin, number 305, page 90:
      again there are suggestions of the white man's work ingeniously intergraven with his own conceptions of art not so rude or savage

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