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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
engross .
Etymologies
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engross + -eth
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Examples
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A vain thought engrosseth all the ground of my heart; till that be rooted out, no good meditation can grow with it or by it.
Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers. 1608-1661 1863
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Such likewise is the situation of man, that in the first stage of life the predominant Faculty engrosseth _his attention_, as the predominant
An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients John Ogilvie 1772
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