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engross

/ɛnˈɡɹəʊs/verb

To copy a document in large, clear, carefully formed lettering; to prepare its final official version.

Example sentence

  • The clerk engrossed the treaty on parchment for the official signing.

The living use is 'engrossed in': absorbed so fully in a book or task that you notice nothing else. The clerical copying sense is legal history.

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