insculp

English

Etymology

From Latin insculpere. Compare French insculper. See in- and sculptor.

Verb

insculp (third-person singular simple present insculps, present participle insculping, simple past and past participle insculped)

  1. (obsolete, rare) To engrave; to carve; to sculpture.
    • (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
      Which he insculped in two likely stones.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for insculp in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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