28 July 2017
graven
[grey-vuh n]
verb
1. a past participle of grave(3).
adjective
2. deeply impressed; firmly fixed.
3. carved; sculptured:
a graven idol.
Origin of graven
1200-1250; Middle English. See grave3, -en3
Related forms
nongraven, adjective
ungraven, adjective
well-graven, adjective
grave(3)
[greyv]
verb (used with object), graved, graven or graved, graving.
1. to carve, sculpt, or engrave.
2. to impress deeply:
graven on the mind.
Origin
before 1000; Middle English graven, Old English grafan; cognate with German graben
Related forms
graver, noun
grave(4)
[greyv]
verb (used with object), graved, graving. Nautical.
1. to clean and apply a protective composition of tar to (the bottom of a ship).
Origin
1425-75; late Middle English; perhaps akin to gravel
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Examples from the Web for graven
Historical Examples
The story of the royal supremacy was graven even on the titlepage of the new Bible.
History of the English People, Volume III (of 8)
John Richard Green
Most of them sat like graven images, neither speaking nor stirring.
Jim Spurling, Fisherman
Albert Walter Tolman
These symbols were called runes; and graven into granite the runic inscriptions have defied the gnawing tooth of time.
Canute the Great
Laurence Marcellus Larson
But along the edge of the oven were graven the signs of the eight elemental forces.
The Chinese Fairy Book
Various
The warriors, standing steady and silent as graven images, gazed earnestly on their multitudinous foes.
The Boy Crusaders
John G. Edgar
“I ain’t exactly a graven image, now that you mention it,” he admitted.
Cap’n Dan’s Daughter
Joseph C. Lincoln
The Wanderer stopped before the gate of an open sepulchre, on which was graven the name of the many times Murdered.
The Continental Monthly, Volume V. Issue I
Various
Has existence only to unroll a tableau, every detail of which is graven on my heart?
Gerald Fitzgerald
Charles James Lever
The features of one were the features of all, graven with the weariness of the machine’s treadmill.
The Last Shot
Frederick Palmer
Darn him, like a graven image there, the only mute, immovable thing in that turmoil!
The Million-Dollar Suitcase
Alice MacGowan
Anagram
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Today’s quote
Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
– José Martí
On this day
28 July 1586 – the humble and versatile potato introduced to the British Isles by Sir Thomas Harriot after it was brought to Europe from the Americas by the Spanish.
28 July 1866 – the United States recognises the metric system as a valid means of measurement.
28 July 1900 – Louis Lassing of Connecticut invents the hamburger.
28 July 1902 – birth of Albert Namatjira, Australian Aboriginal artist. Died 8 August 1959.
28 July 1914 – start of World War I when a Serbian nationalist, Gavrilo Princep, assassinated Austrian Prince Franz Ferdinand. At the time, Europe was comprised of two blocs, the Triple Entente (Britain, France and Russia) and the Triple Alliance (Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy). War escalated as each country came to the other’s aid following military responses to the assassination.
28 July 1928 – IX Olympiad opens in Amsterdam.
28 July 1945 – a United States Air Force B-25 Liberator bomber collides with the Empire State Building in New York at 9.40am. The plane was flying from Bedford Army Air Field to Newark Airport. The pilot asked for clearance to land but was denied because of zero visibility as a result of heavy fog. Rather than turn around, the pilot continued on and became disoriented in the thick fog. The plane smashed into the building between the 78th and 80th floors, killing 14 people, including all on board the plane. One of the plane’s engines flew through the other side of the building, into the next block, falling 900 feet onto the roof of another building, causing a fire that destroyed a penthouse. The other engine and part of the landing gear plummeted down the elevator shaft.