† insculptionn.
Obsolete.
The action of carving or sculpturing upon something; concrete a carved figure or inscription. Also figurative.
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entailc1300
sculpture1390
carving1531
engraving1552
statuary1563
engravery1566
insculption1599
scalpture1656
tomice1662
manusculpture1704
tooling1815
sculpturing1842
sculpting1876
mudding1892
machine sculpture1970
1599 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 268 A cup of silver..to be made..with this insculpsion or engravinge therein.
1607 T. Middleton Revengers Trag. i. sig. A4 For what is it to haue, A flattering false insculption on a Toombe: And in mens hearts reproch.
1647 H. More Philos. Poems ii. iii. ii. xlvi So forms more stoutly flung Against our spright make deep insculption.
1655 T. Fuller Hist. Univ. Cambr. ii. 42 in Church-hist. Brit. Amongst the ancient plate of this Hall..the gift of Thomas Langton, Bishop of Winton, with this insculption. Thomas Langton Winton. Episcopus Aulæ [etc.].
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