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inwrought, ppl. a.
(see below)
Also 8–9 en-.
[f. in adv. 11 b + wrought, pa. pple. of work vb.: cf. inwork v. The form in en- is due to the exchange of en-, in-, in other words: see in-2.]
I. as pa. pple. |ɪnˈrɔːt|.
1. Of a fabric, etc.: Having something worked in by way of decoration. lit. and fig.
α1637Milton Lycidas 105 Next Camus,..His mantle hairy and his bonnet sedge, Inwrought with figures dim. 1725Pope Odyss. i. 212 With purple robes inwrought, and stiff with gold. 1855Longfellow Hiaw. xi. 76 Shirt of doe⁓skin,..All inwrought with beads of wampum.
β1754Dodsley Agric. i. (R.), Massy plate, enwrought With curious costly workmanship. 1850Mrs. Browning Poems II. 386 Now God be thanked for years enwrought With love. 1870Morris Earthly Par. III. iv. 181 The brazen gates enwrought With many a dreamer's steadfast thought.
2. Of a pattern, figure, etc.: Worked into, or embroidered on, a fabric. Also transf.
α1740C. Pitt Virg. æneid v. 323 There royal Ganymede, inwrought with art, O'er hills and forests hunts the bounding hart. 1791E. Darwin Bot. Gard. i. 134 Raised o'er the woof, by Beauty's hand inwrought. 1892A. E. Lee Hist. Columbus (O.) II. 225 A beautiful floral arch with the name U. S. Grant inwrought.
β1805Wordsw. Prelude viii. 243 The flowers Of lowly thyme, by Nature's skill enwrought In the wild turf. 1819― Haunted Tree 12 Flowers enwrought On silken tissue.
3. Worked into the same tissue, intimately combined or worked together with something.
α1824Campbell Theodric 216 With her graceful wit there was inwrought A wildly sweet unworldliness of thought. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola xxx, All that part of his life which was closely inwrought with his emotions.
β1844Mrs. Browning Lost Bower xxiv, And the ivy, veined and glossy, Was enwrought with eglantine.
b. Worked into anything as a constituent.
1734Watts Reliq. Juv. xlvi. (1789) 129 A good degree of courage inwrought into our very frame. 1864Bowen Logic x. 328 Native to the mind and inwrought into its very constitution. 1882Farrar Early Chr. I. 249 Even discords can be inwrought into the vast sequences of some mighty harmony.
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4. as adj. |ˈɪnrɔːt|. (In senses as above.)
1830Tennyson Arab. Nts. xiv, Engarlanded and diaper'd With inwrought flowers, a cloth of gold. 1862M. Hopkins Hawaii 127 The inwrought sacerdotalism ruling over..all the systems. 1880G. C. M. Birdwood Indian Arts II. 68 Its marvellously woven tissues and sumptuously inwrought apparel. 1883Harper's Mag. 904/2 Brocaded satin with inwrought daisies. |