insculpt

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adjective

sculpted; carved

Scrabble 12

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adjectiveinsculpt (not comparable)
  1. not comparableobsoletepoeticsculpted; carved

    In the belfry, I read this verse insculpt or cast in the metal, about the circumference of the bell: […]

    1767, John Weever, William Tooke, Antient Funeral Monuments, of Great-Britain, Ireland, and the Islands Adjacent
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    And now is there a third derivative From Mr. Colburn's composite, which late The Arch-Pirate Galignani hath prefixed, A spurious portrait to a faithless life, And bearing lyingly the libelled name Of Lawrence, impudently there insculpt.

    1828, Robert Southey, Epistle to Allan Cunningham

    It is also generally marked above by flexuose anastomosing black, indented lines, whence it appears as if insculpt with rivulose sutures.

    1894, James M. Crombie, A Monograph of Lichens Found in Britain, page 329

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