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Definition of Engrasps
1. engrasp [v] - See also: engrasp
Lexicographical Neighbors of Engrasps
Literary usage of Engrasps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Autology: An Inductive System of Mental Science; Whose Centre is the Will by David Henry Hamilton (1873)
"It is its own fact and its own knower, and engrasps itself in its own conscious
... Consciousness engrasps the self which is itself, and both grasps and ..."
2. Gymnastics for Youth, Or, A Practical Guide to Healthful and Amusing by Johann Christoph Friedrich Guts Muths, Christian Gotthilf Salzmann (1803)
"... mails our body : a pair of breeches engrasps our loins : our knees are bound
with garters and knee.bands : and our feet are crammed into shoes, ..."
3. Liberty's Triumph: A Poem by Robert Wharton Landis (1849)
"Now a huge bursting wave with sudden shock The larboard strikes and o'er the
vessel rolls Sweeping away the helmsman ; who engrasps A mizzen shroud ere ..."
4. The Lady of Dardale and Other Poems by Walker, Horace Eaton, 1852- (1886)
"My frothing black was flying with the wind, And flew my fancy over all the past,
As lightning steed, or drowning man when death engrasps him far below the ..."
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