Dictionary

inwrought en · ADJ

Etymology

From past participle of inwork.

Meanings

1. Having a design that has been worked or woven in.
2. (figuratively) Fixed, established, ingrained.
   • Or wait the rolling tide; While boldly to the sky Her ensign, wreathing high, Inwrought with volumed smoke, and sparkling flame, she cast. 1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, On the Loss od the Steamboat Ætna, page 96:
   • As he had recovered his strength of body, he had recovered his self-command and the energy of his will; he had recovered the memory of all that part of his life which was closely inwrought with his emotions; and he had felt more and more constantly and painfully the uneasy sense of lost knowledge. 1863, George Eliot, Romola, Volume II, Book II, Chapter X, page 104:

Forms

Translations (6)

ru узорчатый (having a design that has been worked or woven in) · uk спле́тений (having a design that has been worked or woven in) · bg втъкан (having a design that has been worked or woven in) · uk візеру́нчастий (having a design that has been worked or woven in) · uk візеру́нковий (having a design that has been worked or woven in) · ru узорный (having a design that has been worked or woven in)