different between ingrate vs ingrave

English

Etymology

From Latin ingr?tus (“disagreeable”), in- (“not”) +? gr?tus (“pleasing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n??e?t/

Adjective

ingrate (comparative more ingrate, superlative most ingrate)

1. (obsolete, poetic) ungrateful

   • The causes of that which is pleasing , or ingrate to the hearing , may receive light by that which is pleasing or ingrate to the sight
2. (obsolete) unpleasant, unfriendly [18th c.]

Quotations

• 1590, Yet in his mind malitious and ingrate — Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene
• 1596, But I will lift the down-trod Mortimer / As high in the air as this unthankful king, / As this ingrate and canker'd Bolingbroke. — William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1

Translations

Noun

ingrate (plural ingrates)

1. an ungrateful person
   • 1843, But Mr Pecksniff, dismissing all ephemeral considerations of social pleasure and enjoyment, concentrated his meditations on the one great virtuous purpose before him, of casting out that ingrate and deceiver, whose presence yet troubled his domestic hearth, and was a sacrilege upon the altars of his household gods. — Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit
   • 1860–61: "Speak the truth, you ingrate!" cried Miss Havisham — Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
   • 1893, Out of my sight, ingrate! — W.S.Gilbert, Utopia Limited

Translations

Anagrams

• Geraint, Granite, Tangier, angrite, granite, tangier, tearing

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.??at/
• Homophone: ingrates

Adjective

ingrate

1. feminine singular of ingrat

Italian

Adjective

ingrate f pl

1. feminine plural of ingrato

Noun

ingrate f pl

1. plural of ingrata

Anagrams

• argenti, girante, granite, integra, negarti, negrità, regnati, rigante, ritenga, Tangeri, tingerà

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /in??ra?.te/, [????rä?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /in??ra.te/, [i???r??t??]

Adjective

ingr?te

1. vocative masculine singular of ingr?tus

References

• ingrate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ingrate in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ingrate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

in- +? grave. Compare engrave.

Verb

ingrave (third-person singular simple present ingraves, present participle ingraving, simple past and past participle ingraved)

1. Obsolete form of engrave.
   • 1747, William Faithorne, Sculptura Historico-technica: Or the History and Art of Ingraving (etc.), page 11,

     […] M. Anthony Bos, who both etched and ingraved in a Stile of his own, did not ?ucceed ?o well; […] .

   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Oenone

     Behold this fruit, whose gleaming rind ingraven 'For the most fair,' would seem to award it thine

   • 1840, Benjamin Barnard, William Henry Black, Illustrations of Ancient State and Chivalry from Manuscripts Preserved in the Ashmolean Museum, footnote, page 93,

     Even in Ashmole's plate of the feast of Saint George, in the Hall at Windsor, (ingraved by Hollar,) the Knights may be seen, feeding themselves with their fingers: one only appears to be using a fork or spoon.

   • 1991, Giorgio Vasari, Julia Conaway Bondanella, Peter Bondanella (translators), The Lives of the Artists, [from 1550, G. Vasari, Le Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori da Cimabue insino a' tempi nostri], page 91,

     This work, with its border decorations ingraved with festoons of fruit and animals all cast in metal, cost twenty-two thousand florins, while the bronze doors themselves weighed thirty-four thousand pounds.

2. (obsolete) To bury.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Heywood to this entry?)

Anagrams

• Ginevra, avering, reaving, vaginer, vinegar

Dutch

Verb

ingrave

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of ingraven (when using a subclause)

Anagrams

• grave in