engross
verb (used with object)
to occupy completely, as the mind or attention; absorb.
engrosser
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a word derived from
engross.
Example Sentences
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"Then please," entreated Hubert, "take him away," pointing to the engrosser of their mother.
From Clever Woman of the Family by Charlotte Mary Yonge
He looked well to the care of his pen and inscribed each letter with the patient care of the most skillful engrosser of to-day.
From Books Before Typography A Primer of Information About the Invention of the Alphabet and the History of Book-Making up to the Invention of Movable Types Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #49 by Frederick W. (Frederick William) Hamilton
The scarcity of Groser, grocer, is not surprising, for the word, aphetic for engrosser, originally meaning a wholesale dealer, one who sold en gros, is of comparatively late occurrence.
From The Romance of Names by Ernest Weekley
The word “engross” has come into English ultimately from the Late Lat. grossus, thick, stout, large, through the A. Fr. engrosser, Med.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
His friend Gondomar, the Spanish ambassador, once called him an "engrosser of antiquities."
From Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries by J. M. (Jean Mary) Stone
