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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What an abbreviator and clawer off of lawsuits, reconciler of differences, examiner and fumbler of bags, peruser of bills, scribbler of rough drafts, and engrosser of deeds would he not make!
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 by Peter Anthony Motteux
"Yes," replied the two copying-clerks and the engrosser, whose pens forthwith began to creak over the stamped paper, making as much noise in the office as a hundred cockchafers imprisoned by schoolboys in paper cages.
From Colonel Chabert by Ellen Marriage
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
That is usual at the closing of a session, and many bills that had been passed in the last few days came from the engrosser for the signature of the President.
From Under Four Administrations From Cleveland to Taft by Oscar S. Straus
