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insculping

insculping is the present participle and gerund of insculp.

Meaning of insculp

Verb

insculp (third-person singular simple present insculps, present participle insculping, simple past and past participle insculped)

  1. (archaic, rare) To engrave; to carve; to sculpt.
    • A coyne that beares the figure of an Angell
      Stampt in gold, but that's insculpt vpon:c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Questions about insculping

What is insculping the present participle and gerund of?
Insculping is the present participle and gerund of insculp.

Words near insculping in the dictionary

  1. inscrutableness
  2. inscrutables
  3. inscrutably
  4. insculp
  5. insculped
  6. insculping
  7. insculps
  8. insculpt
  9. insculption
  10. insculptions
  11. insculpture

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Adapted from Wiktionary: insculping (page history and authors); insculp (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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