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Definition of Engross

Engross
Engross En*gross", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Engrossed; p. pr. & vb. n. Engrossing.] [F., fr. pref. en- (L. in) + gros gross, grosse, n., an engrossed document: cf. OF. engrossir, engroissier, to make thick, large, or gross. See Gross.] 1. To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity. [Obs.] Waves . . . engrossed with mud. --Spenser. Not sleeping, to engross his idle body. --Shak. 2. To amass. [Obs.] To engross up glorious deeds on my behalf. --Shak. 3. To copy or write in a large hand (en gross, i. e., in large); to write a fair copy of in distinct and legible characters; as, to engross a deed or like instrument on parchment. Some period long past, when clerks engrossed their stiff and formal chirography on more substantial materials. --Hawthorne. Laws that may be engrossed on a finger nail. --De Quincey. 4. To seize in the gross; to take the whole of; to occupy wholly; to absorb; as, the subject engrossed all his thoughts. 5. To purchase either the whole or large quantities of, for the purpose of enhancing the price and making a profit; hence, to take or assume in undue quantity, proportion, or degree; as, to engross commodities in market; to engross power. Engrossed bill (Legislation), one which has been plainly engrossed on parchment, with all its amendments, preparatory to final action on its passage. Engrossing hand (Penmanship), a fair, round style of writing suitable for engrossing legal documents, legislative bills, etc. Syn: To absorb; swallow up; imbibe; consume; exhaust; occupy; forestall; monopolize. See Absorb.

Meaning of Engross from wikipedia

- marketing offences in English common law The process of preparing an engrossed bill in a legislature Illuminated m****cript production and design processes...
- pleasure is p****ed, the greatest sadness follows. If this does not completely engross, still it thoroughly confuses and dulls the mind." Arthur Schopenhauer...
- An Engrossed Bill, also spelled Ingrossed Bill, was the term used in the Parliament of the United Kingdom and its predecessor parliaments for the copy...
- 1796) was the engrosser or penman of the original copy of the United States Constitution. The handwritten do****ent that Shallus engrossed is on display...
- Congress in identical form. In the United States, enrolled bills are engrossed—prepared in a formally printed copy—and must be signed by the presiding...
- The Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, also called the Senate Rules and Administration Committee, is responsible for the rules of the United...
- In Marxian economics and preceding theories, the problem of primitive ac****ulation (also called previous ac****ulation, prior ac****ulation, or original...
- the printing press in the West, official do****ents being drawn up in engrossed or handwritten form well into the 18th century. A revival of calligraphy...
- unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America in the engrossed version and original printing, is the founding do****ent of the United...
- that we usually see but that of a great Mahatma and the one idea that engrosses his mind is his motherland." Pranjivan Mehta to G. K. Gokhale, dated Rangoon...