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ingrosser

ingrosser is the obsolete form of engrosser.

Meaning of engrosser

Noun

engrosser (plural engrossers)

  1. One who copies a piece of writing in large, attractive characters.
  2. One who takes the whole; a purchaser of such quantities in a market as to raise the price; a forestaller.
    • if the engrossing be of all the commodity , and it be of general use , the price is at the will of the engrosser1691, [John Locke], Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest, and Raising the Value of Money. […], London: […] Awnsham and John Churchill, […], published 1692, →OCLC

Forms of ingrosser

pluralingrossers

Questions about ingrosser

What is ingrosser the obsolete form of?
Ingrosser is the obsolete form of engrosser.

Words near ingrosser in the dictionary

  1. ingrooves
  2. ingrooving
  3. ingross
  4. ingrosse
  5. ingrossed
  6. ingrosser
  7. ingrossers
  8. ingrosses
  9. ingrosseth
  10. ingrossing
  11. ingrossment

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