The Collaborative International Dictionary
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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To dig. [Obs.] Chaucer.
He hath graven and digged up a pit.
--Ps. vii. 16 (Book of Common Prayer). -
To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
Thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel.
--Ex. xxviii. 9. -
To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.
With gold men may the hearte grave.
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To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
O! may they graven in thy heart remain.
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To entomb; to bury. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.Lie full low, graved in the hollow ground.
--Shak.
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Usage examples of "graved".
He could feel the weight in his hand, the perfect balance of the dagger, see the pommel with the three silver knobs, the device graved on the blade, a striking falcon.
Rhodry raced over, stumbling a little, and picked up her sword, graved with the device of a striking falcon and running only with water now, not blood.
It was hanging from a leather strap, so that it had a clear top and bottom, and graved on it was the upsidedown pentagram, the star of evil.
I found a piece of jewellery in his saddle-bags with the Star of Evil graved upon it when I was setting rat-traps in his chamber.
In a pair of graved silver message tubes he carried letters from the regent, and in a velvet-lined leather pouch all the coin that Lovyan could scrounge up on such short notice.
Its walls held the same graved patterns he remembered, that Gird had traced with his thumb, that Luap had devoured with his eyes, trying to remember them.
Up either column ran the same intricate interlacing patterns as on all other columns in that place, patterns he had seen in weaving or pottery all his life, now graved deep in polished stone.
And if we had better records of the early mageborn invasion, we might know more about what happened to the magery, and why the transfer pattern is graved in the floor of the High Lord’s hall.
When he turned it over, he saw a small mark graved at one end of the band: the letter A, the first letter of the word for boar.
As he took it out, Jill could see the device engraved on the blade, a striking falcon, which was Cullyn's mark, graved or stamped on everything he owned.
Every now and then, Galrion noticed Gerraent looking at the blade of his table dagger, where a falcon mark was graved, the clan's symbol, and his whole life, his duty and power.
On it was graved the device of a striking falcon (Cullyn's old mark, because the dagger had once belonged to him,) but in Rhodry's hand the device was almost invisible in a blaze and flare of dweomer-light, running like water from the blade.
It was a thin circle of lead, graved with a reversed pentagram, a Bardek word, and three strange sigils.