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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of engraff.

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Examples

  • Why, because you have been so lewd and so much engraffed to Falstaff.

    The second part of King Henry the Fourth 2004

  • The best and soundest of his time hath been but rash; then must we look to receive from his age, not alone the imperfections of long-engraffed condition, but therewithal the unruly waywardness that infirm and choleric years bring with them.

    King Lear 2004

  • Also Krantzius and Munster both together, when as those whom they affirme to be engraffed by faith into Christ, they except from all sense of piety and honesty, in that they write that their sonnes are not dearer vnto them then their whelpes.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Also Krantzius and Munster both together, when as those whom they affirme to be engraffed by faith into Christ, they except from all sense of piety and honesty, in that they write that their sonnes are not dearer vnto them then their whelpes.

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • The best and soundest of his time hath been but rash; then, must we look to receive from his age, not alone the imperfections of long-engraffed condition, but, therewithal the unruly waywardness that infirm and choleric years bring with them.

    Act I. Scene I. King Lear 1914

  • Why, because you have been so lewd and so much engraffed to Falstaff.

    Act II. Scene II. The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth 1914

  • AS there is a general Vengeance which secretly pursueth the doers of wrong, and suffereth them not to prosper, albeit no man of purpose empeach them: so is there a particular Indignation, engraffed in the bosom of all that are wronged, which ceaseth not seeking, by all means possible, to redress or remedy the wrong received.

    Sir Francis Drake Revived. Paras. 1-99 1909

  • The best and soundest of his time hath been but rash; then must we look from his age to receive not alone the imperfections of long-engraffed condition, 33 but therewithal the unruly waywardness that infirm and choleric years bring with them.

    Act I. Scene I 1909

  • The best and soundest of his time hath been but rash; then must we look to receive from his age, not alone the imperfections of long-engraffed condition, but therewithal the unruly waywardness that infirm and choleric years bring with them.

    King Lear 1605

  • Why, because you have been so lewd and so much engraffed to Falstaff.

    The Second Part of King Henry IV 1598

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