graven

graven
    adj 1: cut into a desired shape; "graven images"; "sculptured
           representations" [syn: {graven}, {sculpted},
           {sculptured}]
    2: cut or impressed into a surface; "an incised design";
       "engraved invitations" [syn: {engraved}, {etched}, {graven},
       {incised}, {inscribed}]
    

Grave \Grave\, v. t. [imp. {Graved} (gr[=a]vd); p. p. {Graven}
   (gr[=a]v"'n) or {Graved}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Graving}.] [AS.
   grafan to dig, grave, engrave; akin to OFries. greva, D.
   graven, G. graben, OHG. & Goth. graban, Dan. grabe, Sw.
   gr[aum]fva, Icel. grafa, but prob. not to Gr. gra`fein to
   write, E. graphic. Cf. {Grave}, n., {Grove}, n.]
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   1. To dig. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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            He hath graven and digged up a pit.   --Ps. vii. 16
                                                  (Book of
                                                  Common
                                                  Prayer).
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   2. To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard
      substance; to engrave.
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            Thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them
            the names of the children of Israel.  --Ex. xxviii.
                                                  9.
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   3. To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel;
      to sculpture; as, to grave an image.
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            With gold men may the hearte grave.   --Chaucer.
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   4. To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
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            O! may they graven in thy heart remain. --Prior.
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   5. To entomb; to bury. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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            Lie full low, graved in the hollow ground. --Shak.
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Graven \Grav"en\, p. p. of {Grave}, v. t.
   Carved.
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   {Graven image}, an idol; an object of worship carved from
      wood, stone, etc. "Thou shalt not make unto thee any
      graven image." --Ex. xx. 4.
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73 Moby Thesaurus words for "graven":
      anaglyphic, anaglyptic, anastatic, carved, ceroplastic, chased,
      confirmed, creased, cut, deep-dyed, deep-engraven, deep-fixed,
      deep-grounded, deep-laid, deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set,
      deep-settled, dyed-in-the-wool, embedded, embossed, enchased,
      engrafted, engraved, engraven, entrenched, established, etched,
      firmly established, furrowed, glyphic, glyptic, graved, grooved,
      hammered, implanted, impressed, imprinted, in relief, incised,
      indelibly impressed, infixed, ingrained, ingrown, inscribed,
      insculptured, inveterate, inwrought, lined, long-established,
      marked, modeled, molded, old-line, on a rock, on bedrock, printed,
      rooted, sculpted, sculptile, sculptured, set, settled, stabilized,
      stamped, tooled, toreutic, vested, well-established, well-founded,
      well-grounded, well-set, well-settled