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Graven
Definitions
- 1 carved, engraved not-comparable
"Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image."
- 1 cut or impressed into a surface wordnet
- 2 cut into a desired shape wordnet
- 1 A surname.
- 1 past participle of grave form-of, participle, past
"Deep lines were graven on her pale forehead, and on her wan, thin cheeks."
- 2 To make graven or engraved archaic, transitive
"I saw I was not only gravened upon the palms of his hands, or set as a seal upon his arm, but I was pourtrayed upon his heart."
- 3 To make or become grave (serious or sombre) ambitransitive
"Whatever it was that had cast a dark shadow and gravened the faces of those normally ebullient people was much too complicated for me to understand."
Etymology
From Middle English graven, igraven, from Old English grafen, ġegrafen, from Proto-Germanic *grabanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *grabaną (“to dig, trench”).
From Middle English graven, igraven, from Old English grafen, ġegrafen, from Proto-Germanic *grabanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *grabaną (“to dig, trench”).
From graven (adjective) above.
From grave (adjective) + -en.
* As an English surname, a topographic surname for someone living near a ditch, from Middle Low German grav (“moat, ditch”), from Old Saxon graf, from Proto-Germanic *grabą, the source of grave. * As a Norwegian surname, from Old Norse gróf (“depression, hollow”), from Proto-Germanic *grōbō.
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