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insculpt

insculpt adjective: sculpted; carved.

Adjective

insculpt (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete, poetic) sculpted; carved
    • In the belfry, I read this verse insculpt or cast in the metal, about the circumference of the bell: […]1767, John Weever, William Tooke, Antient Funeral Monuments, of Great-Britain, Ireland, and the Islands Adjacent
    • And now is there a third derivative
      From Mr. Colburn's composite, which late
      The Arch-Pirate Galignani hath prefixed,
      A spurious portrait to a faithless life,
      And bearing lyingly the libelled name
      Of Lawrence, impudently there insculpt.1828, Robert Southey, Epistle to Allan Cunningham

Questions about insculpt

What does insculpt mean?
Insculpt means sculpted; carved.
What part of speech is insculpt?
Insculpt is an adjective.

Words near insculpt in the dictionary

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

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