- (v.t.) To amass.
- (v.t.) 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.
- (v.t.) To make gross, thick or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity.
- (v.t.) 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.
- (v.t.) To seize in the gross; to take the whole of; to occupy wholly; to absorb; as, the subject engrossed all his thoughts.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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