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(transitive, now law) To write (a document) in large, aesthetic, and legible lettering; to make a finalized copy of.

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engross

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ɪnˈɡɹəʊs/

Verb

transitive obsolete

(transitive, now law) To write (a document) in large, aesthetic, and legible lettering; to make a finalized copy of.

Japanese Meaning

大きく、美しく、見やすい文字で文書を書くこと。正式なコピーとして文字を施すこと。

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The clerk will engross the proclamation in ornate script before it is signed.

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職員は署名される前に、その布告を大きく装飾的で読みやすい書体で書き記すだろう。

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Sense（1）

(transitive, now law) To write (a document) in large, aesthetic, and legible lettering; to make a finalized copy of.

Coordinate term: longhand

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Sense（2）

(transitive, business, obsolete) To buy up wholesale, especially to buy the whole supply of (a commodity etc.).

Sense（3）

(transitive) To monopolize; to concentrate (something) in the single possession of someone, especially unfairly.

After which time the Popes of Rome, engroſſing what they pleas'd of Politicall rule into their owne hands, extended their dominion over mens eyes, as they had before over their judgements, burning and prohibiting to be read, what they fanſied not; […]

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Sense（4）

(transitive) To completely engage the attention of.

She seems to be completely engrossed in that book.

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Sense（5）

(transitive, obsolete) To thicken; to condense.

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Sense（6）

(transitive, obsolete) To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity.

The waues thereof ſo ſlow and ſluggiſh were, / Engroſt with mud, which did them fowle agriſe, / That euery weighty thing they did vpbeare, / Ne ought mote euer ſinck downe to the bottom there.

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