graven

[ grey-vuhn ]

verb

1. a past participle of grave ³.

adjective

1. deeply impressed; firmly fixed.
2. carved; sculptured:

   a graven idol.

graven

/ ˈɡreɪvən /

verb

1. a past participle of grave 3

adjective

1. strongly fixed

Other Words From

• non·graven adjective
• un·graven adjective
• well-graven adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of graven¹

1200–50; Middle English. See grave ³, -en ³

Example Sentences

Even when Levon Helm was young, he had a voice that spoke to you with the authority of something graven in stone.

From The Daily Beast

They are turned back: let them be greatly confounded, that trust in a graven thing, that say to a molten thing: You are our god.

From Project Gutenberg

And I will make thy bulwarks of jasper: and thy gates of graven stones, and all thy borders of desirable stones.

From Project Gutenberg

What doth the graven thing avail, because the maker thereof hath graven it, a molten, and a false image?

From Project Gutenberg

Of all these graven images existed, carved by men's hands,--some in the form of animals, like the winged bulls of Nineveh.

From Project Gutenberg

"Ay, with the cross graven on it," I answered; and my words checked a laugh that was on Evan's lips.

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