Definition of Engraining

1. Verb. (present participle of engrain) ¹

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Definition of Engraining

1. engrain [v] - See also: engrain

Lexicographical Neighbors of Engraining

engraft
engraftable
engrafted
engrafting
engraftment
engraftments
engrafts
engrail
engrailed
engrailing
engrailment
engrailments
engrails
engrain
engrained
engraining (current term)
engrains
engram
engramma
engrammas
engrammatic
engramme
engrammes
engrammic
engrams
engraphia
engraphic
engrapple
engrappled
engrappling

Literary usage of Engraining

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Journal of Science, and Annals of Astronomy, Biology, Geology by James Samuelson, William Crookes (1884)
"[" Enforcing, perpetuating, and engraining"—the work of the pedant.] ..." While the other class is chiefly intent upon pushing forward the boundaries of ..."

2. The Journal of Science by Calcutta Asiatic Society (1884)
"[" Enforcing, perpetuating, and engraining"—the work of the pedant.] ..." While the other class is chiefly intent upon pushing forward the boundaries of ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"The very strength and power of discipline in its formation and engraining of habits is that which makes an army so hap*. to deal with when habits have to be ..."

4. The Fortnightly Review (1866)
"The process of engraining these impressions on the mind after repetition gives to subsequent sensations quite a different character as compared with the ..."

5. The Mexican War, by an English Soldier: Comprising Incidents and Adventures by George Ballentine (1860)
"Borrowing, therefore, an old pair of canvas trousers, a Guernsey shirt, and tarpaulin hat from a sailor, and thoroughly engraining his face and hands with ..."

6. Aristotle by George Grote (1872)
"The process of engraining these impressions on the mind after repetition, gives to subsequent sensations quite a different character as compared with the ..."

7. Chinese Porcelain by William Giuseppi Gulland (1902)
"... so as to resemble the engraining of years.17 Old pieces of Chinese origin that have been broken can have the damaged portions made good in a way that is ..."

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