Engross \En*gross"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Engrossed; p. pr. &
vb. n. Engrossing.] [F., fr. pref. en- (L. in) + gros
gross, grosse, n., an engrossed document: cf. OF. engrossir,
engroissier, to make thick, large, or gross. See Gross.]
1. To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in
bulk or quantity. [Obs.]
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Waves . . . engrossed with mud. --Spenser.
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Not sleeping, to engross his idle body. --Shak.
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2. To amass. [Obs.]
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To engross up glorious deeds on my behalf. --Shak.
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3. To copy or write in a large hand (en gross, i. e., in
large); to write a fair copy of in distinct and legible
characters; as, to engross a deed or like instrument on
parchment.
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Some period long past, when clerks engrossed their
stiff and formal chirography on more substantial
materials. --Hawthorne.
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Laws that may be engrossed on a finger nail. --De
Quincey.
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4. To seize in the gross; to take the whole of; to occupy the
attention completely; to absorb; as, the subject engrossed
all his thoughts.
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5. To purchase either the whole or large quantities of, for
the purpose of enhancing the price and making a profit;
hence, to take or assume in undue quantity, proportion, or
degree; as, to engross commodities in market; to engross
power.
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Engrossed bill (Legislation), one which has been plainly
engrossed on parchment, with all its amendments,
preparatory to final action on its passage.
Engrossing hand (Penmanship), a fair, round style of
writing suitable for engrossing legal documents,
legislative bills, etc.
Syn: To absorb; swallow up; imbibe; consume; exhaust; occupy;
forestall; monopolize. See Absorb.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
engrossed
adj 1: wholly absorbed as in thought; "deep in thought"; "that
engrossed look or rapt delight"; "the book had her
totally engrossed"; "enwrapped in dreams"; "so intent
on this fantastic...narrative that she hardly
stirred"- Walter de la Mare; "rapt with wonder";
"wrapped in thought" [syn: absorbed, enwrapped, intent,
rapt, wrapped]
2: written formally in a large clear script, as a deed or other
legal document
WordNet (r) 2.0
112 Moby Thesaurus words for "engrossed":
absent, absentminded, absorbed, absorbed in, abstracted, assiduous,
autograph, autographic, bemused, buried in, buried in thought,
busy, calligraphic, castle-building, caught up in, chirographic,
consumed, contemplating, contemplative, cursive, daydreaming,
daydreamy, deep, devoted, devoted to, diligent, dreaming, dreamy,
drowsing, ecstatic, elsewhere, engaged, engaged in thought,
engrossed in, engrossed in thought, faraway, flowing, graphic,
graphoanalytic, graphologic, graphometric, half-awake, holograph,
holographic, immersed, immersed in, immersed in thought,
in a reverie, in longhand, in shorthand, in the clouds, in writing,
industrious, inscribed, intent, intent on, introspective, involved,
italic, italicized, longhand, lost, lost in, lost in thought,
manuscript, meditating, meditative, monomaniacal, monopolized,
mooning, moonraking, museful, musing, napping, nodding, oblivious,
obsessed, occupied, on paper, penciled, penned, pensive,
pipe-dreaming, preoccupied, printed, rapt, running, scriptorial,
scriptural, sedulous, shorthand, single-minded, somewhere else,
stargazing, studious, studying, stylographic, submerged,
submerged in, swept up, taken up, taken up with, totally absorbed,
transported, unconscious, woolgathering, wrapped, wrapped in,
wrapped in thought, wrapped up, wrapped up in, written
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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