Crossword clues for graven
graven
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.
--Chaucer. -
To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
O! may they graven in thy heart remain.
--Prior. -
To entomb; to bury. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.Lie full low, graved in the hollow ground.
--Shak.
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
past participle adjective, late 14c., from grave (v.) + -en (1).
Wiktionary
1 carved, engraved 2 Something fashioned by man, or something man-made. Anything made by man's hands. 3 Something that is not alive, but made dead, from the grave. v
(past participle of grave English)
WordNet
See grave
adj. dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises; "a grave God-fearing man"; "a quiet sedate nature"; "as sober as a judge"; "a solemn promise"; "the judge was solemn as he pronounced sentence" [syn: sedate, sober, solemn]
causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm; "a dangerous operation"; "a grave situation"; "a grave illness"; "grievous bodily harm"; "a serious wound"; "a serious turn of events"; "a severe case of pneumonia"; "a life-threatening disease" [syn: dangerous, grievous, serious, severe, life-threatening]
of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought; "grave responsibilities"; "faced a grave decision in a time of crisis"; "a grievous fault"; "heavy matters of state"; "the weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference" [syn: grievous, heavy, weighty]
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n. death of a person; "he went to his grave without forgiving me"; "from cradle to grave"
a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone); "he put flowers on his mother's grave" [syn: tomb]
a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation [syn: grave accent]
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v. shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it; "She is sculpting the block of marble into an image of her husband" [syn: sculpt, sculpture]
carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface; "engrave a pen"; "engraved the winner's name onto the trophy cup" [syn: engrave, inscribe]
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Wikipedia
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 pottery 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.