engravery

noun

engravery

noun

Etymology From engrave + -ery?

1

Archaic, Usually engraving (act, or object)

  • They wonder to find the art of engravery so ancient upon precious stones and signetsc. 1683 (date written), Thomas Brown [i.e., Thomas Browne], “(please specify the page)”, in [Thomas Tenison], editor, Certain Miscellany Tracts, London: […] Charles Mearn, […], published 1683, →OCLC:

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