ingrained, ppl. a.
(ɪnˈgreɪnd)
[app. orig. a variant of engrained ppl. a.: but now analysed as if from in adv. + grained: cf. ingrain a. Stressed ˈin-ˌgrained before a n., otherwise ˌinˈgrained.]
Wrought in the inmost texture; deeply rooted, inveterate.
| [1599 Marston Sco. Villanie i. iv. 189 Ingrain'd Habits, died with often dips.] 1821 Galt Ayrsh. Legatees xxv, Their old ingrained and particular sentiments. 1837 Emerson Addr., Amer. Schol. Wks. (Bohn) II. 182 That great principle of Undulation in nature..deeply ingrained in every atom and every fluid. 1855 Singleton Virgil II. 142 Their ingrained wickedness is washed away. 1899 Q. Rev. Jan. 24 The old ingrained prejudice of his followers. |
b. Of persons: Thorough, out-and-out.
| [1630 Rutherford Lett. 21 July (1675) iii. 156 The bloudy Tongues, crafty Foxes, double ingrained Hypocrites, shall appear as they are before his Majesty.] 1851 Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 329 Many ingrained beggars certainly use the street trade as a cloak for alms-seeking. 1870 Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. i. (1873) 277 He is an ingrained sceptic. |
Hence ingrainedly (ɪnˈgreɪnɪdlɪ), (ˈɪnˌgreɪndlɪ) adv., in an ingrained manner or degree, thoroughly.
| 1869 Athenæum 16 Oct. 495 Designedly and undesignedly a liar; an utterly ingrainedly untrue creature. 1884 Mrs. Houstoun Caught in Snare II. xii. 141 She was not ingrainedly selfish. 1893 Chicago Advance 25 May, The material to work upon was too ingrainedly bad for even Elizabeth's optimism. |