engrasp

verb

engrasp

verb

Etymology From en- + grasp?

1

Obsolete To grasp; to grip, to take hold of.

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 see1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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