† engraveryn.
Obsolete.
The art or work of the engraver; concrete the productions of the engraver's art; also (rarely) an individual work of the kind, a piece of engraving.
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engravery1566
gravery1601
engravement1604
engravening1645
graving1646
sculpture1661
sculping1683
engraving1697
engravure1716
re-engraving1772
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > [noun]
entailc1300
sculpture1390
carving1531
engraving1552
statuary1563
engravery1566
insculption1599
scalpture1656
tomice1662
manusculpture1704
tooling1815
sculpturing1842
sculpting1876
mudding1892
machine sculpture1970
1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure (18..) II. 533.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Manequinage, anticke ingrauerie, or caruing, in Wainscot, or Stone-worke.
1639 F. B. tr. J. L. G. de Balzac Coll. Mod. Epist. IV. 151 He hath in charge to presente you with my fine Cuts or small Ingravery.
1676 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 554 The Cabinets, copper Cuts and Engravery of Monsieur de Marolles.
a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1683) i. 4 They wonder to find the Art of Ingravery so ancient upon pretious Stones and Signets.
a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1684) 210 Some handsome Engraveries and Medals.
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