engrosseth

Verb

engross (third-person singular simple present engrosses, present participle engrossing, simple past and past participle engrossed)

1. (transitive) To write (a document) in large, aesthetic, and legible lettering; to make a finalized copy of.
   • This envelope had the air of an official record of some period long past, when clerks engrossed their stiff and formal chirography on more substantial materials than at present.1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Custom-house. Introductory to ‘The Scarlet Letter.’”, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, page 34
2. (obsolete, transitive) To buy up wholesale, especially to buy the whole supply of (a commodity etc.).

   Synonyms:

   corner the market

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; […]1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 7
4. (transitive) To completely engage the attention of; to involve.
   • She seems to be completely engrossed in that book.

   Synonyms:

   enwrap, wrap

5. (obsolete, transitive) To thicken; to condense.
   • As, when a foggy miſt hath ouercaſt / The face of heuen, and the cleare ayre engroſte, / The world in darkenes dwels, […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 13, page 447

   Synonyms:

   inspissate, condense, incrassate, reduce, thick, thicken

6. (obsolete, transitive) 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.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 46, page 269

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