engross

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To write (a document) in large, aesthetic, and legible lettering; to make a finalized copy of.

   “This envelope had the air of an official record of some period long past, when clerks engrossed their stiff and formal chirography on more substantial materials than at present.”

2. fiil To buy up wholesale, especially to buy the whole supply of (a commodity etc.).
3. fiil To monopolize; to concentrate (something) in the single possession of someone, especially unfairly.

   “After which time the Popes of Rome, engroſſing what they pleas'd of Politicall rule into their owne hands, extended their dominion over mens eyes, as they had before over their judgements, burning and prohibiting to be read, what they fanſied not; […]”

4. fiil To completely engage the attention of; to involve.

   “She seems to be completely engrossed in that book.”

5. fiil To thicken; to condense.

   “As, when a foggy miſt hath ouercaſt / The face of heuen, and the cleare ayre engroſte, / The world in darkenes dwels, […]”

6. fiil To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity.

   “The waues thereof ſo ſlow and ſluggiſh were, / Engroſt with mud, which did them fowle agriſe, / That euery weighty thing they did vpbeare, / Ne ought mote euer ſinck downe to the bottom there.”

7. fiil To amass.

   “Percy is but my factor, good my Lord, / To engroſſe vp glorious deeds on my behalfe.”