inwrought
adjEtymology From past participle of inwork.
1
Having a design that has been worked or woven in.
2
Figuratively Fixed, established, ingrained.
- Or wait the rolling tide; While boldly to the sky Her ensign, wreathing high, Inwrought with volumed smoke, and sparkling flame, she cast.1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, On the Loss od the Steamboat Ætna, page 96:
- As he had recovered his strength of body, he had recovered his self-command and the energy of his will; he had recovered the memory of all that part of his life which was closely inwrought with his emotions; and he had felt more and more constantly and painfully the uneasy sense of lost knowledge.1863, George Eliot, Romola, Volume II, Book II, Chapter X, page 104: