insculp
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of insculp
1400–50; late Middle English < Latin insculpere, equivalent to in- in- 2 + sculpere to carve; sculptor
Example Sentences
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He felt that it was his part to chuse whom he would resemble, yet he remained unresolved, though the spectator of an hundred shades of renown, among which glided by Alexander, Alcibiades, and Hephestion: at length appeared the supernatural effigy of a man, whose perfections human artist never could depict or insculp—Demetrius, the son of Antigonus.
From Project Gutenberg
They have in England A coin that bears the figure of an angel Stamped in gold; but that's insculp'd upon; But here an angel in a golden bed Lies all within.
From Project Gutenberg
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