engrasp
English
Etymology
Verb
engrasp (third-person singular simple present engrasps, present participle engrasping, simple past and past participle engrasped)
- (obsolete) To grasp; to grip, to take hold of.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Now gan Pyrochles wex as wood as hee,
And him affronted with impatient might :
So both together fiers engrasped bee ,
Whiles Guyon standing by their uncouth strife does see
References
- “engrasp”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.