re-engravev.
/ˌriːᵻnˈɡreɪv/, /ˌriːɛnˈɡreɪv/, /ˌriːᵻŋˈɡreɪv/, /ˌriːɛŋˈɡreɪv/, U.S. /ˌriᵻnˈɡreɪv/, /ˌriɛnˈɡreɪv/, /ˌriᵻŋˈɡreɪv/, /ˌriɛŋˈɡreɪv/ transitive. To engrave again.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > incising or intaglio > incise (marks or figures) [verb (transitive)] > incise (a surface)
writea1325
gravec1374
engrail1548
incise1567
re-engravea1631
engrave1832
intaglio1847
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > engrave [verb (transitive)] > re-engrave
regrave1662
re-engrave1776
a1631 J. Donne 50 Serm. (1649) xxx. 265 So then the children of God, are the Marble, and the Ivory, upon which he workes; In them his purpose is, to re-engrave, and restore his Image.
a1711 T. Ken Hymnarium 99 in Wks. (1721) II. They joy to see God's Image re-engrav'd.
1776 E. M. da Costa Elements Conchol. ii. 35 He had them re-engraved; and therefore many shells appear twice in his work.
1793 T. Pennant Lit. Life 39 Mr. White..printed a third edition..with most of the old plates re-engraved, and several new ones.
1806 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 22 133 Doppelmayer had a fac-simile of this chart re-engraved.
1877 L. Jewitt Half-hours among Eng. Antiq. 132 They were frequently laid down to other persons, or re-engraved on the other side, and hence called palimpsests.
1901 Dict. National Biogr. Suppl. III. 324/2 ‘Complete edition’, with new index..(three additional plates, some of the others re-engraved).
1941 H. Dichter & E. Shapiro Early Amer. Sheet Music p. xxiii The Foster songs..were re-engraved again and again, thus accounting for variations in the music.
2007 Crawley Observer (Nexis) 31 Dec. 31 Dec. The artists are coming back in early January to re-engrave the plaque.
Derivatives
re-enˈgraved adj.
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1815 A. F. Griffiths Bibliotheca Anglo-poetica 113 The present copy has the portrait by White; a re-engraved one from the same ; and two of the prints by Godefroy.
1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 1 Feb. 2/1 The re-engraved plates are nine in number.
1930 Geogr. Jrnl. 76 247 Dr. Wieder has lately discovered one sheet of a re-engraved issue of Plancius's original map.
2007 R. Gyselen Sasanian Seals c. 27 If we possessed only the second seal it is unlikely that we would suspect that it was a re-engraved seal.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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