inwrought, ppl. a.
(see below)
Also 8–9 en-.
[f. in adv. 11 b + wrought, pa. pple. of work vb.: cf. inwork v. The form in en- is due to the exchange of en-, in-, in other words: see in-2.]
I. as pa. pple. (ɪnˈrɔːt).
1. Of a fabric, etc.: Having something worked in by way of decoration. lit. and fig.
| α 1637 Milton Lycidas 105 Next Camus,..His mantle hairy and his bonnet sedge, Inwrought with figures dim. 1725 Pope Odyss. i. 212 With purple robes inwrought, and stiff with gold. 1855 Longfellow Hiaw. xi. 76 Shirt of doe⁓skin,..All inwrought with beads of wampum. |
| β 1754 Dodsley Agric. i. (R.), Massy plate, enwrought With curious costly workmanship. 1850 Mrs. Browning Poems II. 386 Now God be thanked for years enwrought With love. 1870 Morris Earthly Par. III. iv. 181 The brazen gates enwrought With many a dreamer's steadfast thought. |
2. Of a pattern, figure, etc.: Worked into, or embroidered on, a fabric. Also
transf.| α 1740 C. Pitt Virg. æneid v. 323 There royal Ganymede, inwrought with art, O'er hills and forests hunts the bounding hart. 1791 E. Darwin Bot. Gard. i. 134 Raised o'er the woof, by Beauty's hand inwrought. 1892 A. E. Lee Hist. Columbus (O.) II. 225 A beautiful floral arch with the name U. S. Grant inwrought. |
| β 1805 Wordsw. Prelude viii. 243 The flowers Of lowly thyme, by Nature's skill enwrought In the wild turf. 1819 ― Haunted Tree 12 Flowers enwrought On silken tissue. |
3. Worked into the same tissue, intimately combined or worked together
with something.
| α 1824 Campbell Theodric 216 With her graceful wit there was inwrought A wildly sweet unworldliness of thought. 1863 Geo. Eliot Romola xxx, All that part of his life which was closely inwrought with his emotions. |
| β 1844 Mrs. Browning Lost Bower xxiv, And the ivy, veined and glossy, Was enwrought with eglantine. |
b. Worked into anything as a constituent.
| 1734 Watts Reliq. Juv. xlvi. (1789) 129 A good degree of courage inwrought into our very frame. 1864 Bowen Logic x. 328 Native to the mind and inwrought into its very constitution. 1882 Farrar Early Chr. I. 249 Even discords can be inwrought into the vast sequences of some mighty harmony. |
II. 4. as
adj. (
ˈɪnrɔːt). (In senses as above.)
| 1830 Tennyson Arab. Nts. xiv, Engarlanded and diaper'd With inwrought flowers, a cloth of gold. 1862 M. Hopkins Hawaii 127 The inwrought sacerdotalism ruling over..all the systems. 1880 G. C. M. Birdwood Indian Arts II. 68 Its marvellously woven tissues and sumptuously inwrought apparel. 1883 Harper's Mag. 904/2 Brocaded satin with inwrought daisies. |