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graven
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
past participle adjective, late 14c., from grave (v.) + -en (1).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. cut into a desired shape; "graven images"; "sculptured representations" [syn: sculpted , sculptured ] cut or impressed into a surface; "an incised design"; "engraved invitations" [syn: engraved , etched , incised , inscribed ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Graven \Grav"en\, p. p. of Grave , v. t. Carved. 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.
Usage examples of graven.
Vele leven onder den grond, graven zelf gaten en gangen, of maken gebruik van die, welke er reeds zijn, nadat zij den rechtmatigen eigenaar met geweld of list verdreven hebben.
Habit had graven inerasably on my memory, every turn and change of object on the road.
And their distaste for the icon of the lovely lady with her bonny babe -- Mariolatry, graven images!
I thought I was at Venice again, and I felt my bosom swell, so deeply is the love of fatherland graven on the heart of every good man.
It took magic of great power to force open the Tower door, with its intertwined glyphs, layers of active enchantments, and the runes set into its frame and graven on its hinges.
In the dry sand of the arroyo floor old bones and broken shapes of painted potÂtery and graven on the rocks above them pictographs of horse and cougar and turtle and the mounted Spaniards helmeted and bucklered and contemptuous of stone and silence and time itself.
Throughout the Pacific, and also in Nantucket, and New Bedford, and Sag Harbor, you will come across lively sketches of whales and whaling-scenes, graven by the fishermen themselves on Sperm Whale-teeth, or ladies' busks wrought out of the Right Whale-bone, and other like skrimshander articles, as the whalemen call the numerous little ingenious contrivances they elaborately carve out of the rough material, in their hours of ocean leisure.
Throughout the Pacific, and also in Nantucket, and New Bedford, and Sag Harbor, you will come across lively sketches of whales and whaling-scenes, graven by the fishermen themselves on Sperm Whale-teeth, or ladies' busks wrought out of the Right Whale-bone, and other like skrimshander articles, as the whalemen call the numerous little ingenious contrivances they elaborately carve out of the rough material, in their hours of ocean leisure.
Gravina, an Italian critick, observes, that every man desires to see that of which he has read.
The Dissertations of Noodt aad Gronovius de lege Regia, printed at Leyden, in the year 1731 Gravina de Imperio Romano, p.
The Dissertations of Noodt aad Gronovius de lege Regia, printed at Leyden, in the year 1731 Gravina de Imperio Romano, p.
Age spots dotted his broad face, accenting the deeply graven, lines of his patriarchal features.
The tall chair of mystically graven gold and ebony, in which the mummy should have sat crowned and robed as in life, was addorsed against the farther wall on a low dais.
Milo was the corn god, the rain god and the rice god in backward regions where such crude gods were still worshiped by ignorant and superstitious people, and deep inside the jungles of Africa, he intimated with becoming modesty, large graven images of his mustached face could be found overlooking primitive stone altars red with human blood.
The warning of the administrator slid face up into my brain as if inscribed on a cool stone slab: I read the words of that warning as they pressed against the surfaces of the dura mater, graven and terrible.