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Grave   /greɪv/   Listen
noun
Grave  n.  An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction. "He bad lain in the grave four days."
Grave wax, adipocere.


adjective
Grave  adj.  (compar. graver; superl. gravest)  
1.
Of great weight; heavy; ponderous. (Obs.) "His shield grave and great."
2.
Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc. "Most potent, grave, and reverend seigniors." "A grave and prudent law, full of moral equity."
3.
Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face.
4.
(Mus.)
(a)
Not acute or sharp; low; deep; said of sound; as, a grave note or key. "The thicker the cord or string, the more grave is the note or tone."
(b)
Slow and solemn in movement.
Grave accent. (Pron.) See the Note under Accent, n., 2.
Synonyms: Solemn; sober; serious; sage; staid; demure; thoughtful; sedate; weighty; momentous; important. Grave, Sober, Serious, Solemn. Sober supposes the absence of all exhilaration of spirits, and is opposed to gay or flighty; as, sober thought. Serious implies considerateness or reflection, and is opposed to jocose or sportive; as, serious and important concerns. Grave denotes a state of mind, appearance, etc., which results from the pressure of weighty interests, and is opposed to hilarity of feeling or vivacity of manner; as, a qrave remark; qrave attire. Solemn is applied to a case in which gravity is carried to its highest point; as, a solemn admonition; a solemn promise.


verb
Grave  v. t.  (past graved; past part. graven; pres. part. graving)  (Naut.) To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch; so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose.


Grave  v. t.  (past graved; past part. graven; pres. part. graving)  
1.
To dig. (Obs.) Chaucer. "He hath graven and digged up a pit."
2.
To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave. "Thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel."
3.
To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image. "With gold men may the hearte grave."
4.
To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly. "O! may they graven in thy heart remain."
5.
To entomb; to bury. (Obs.) "Lie full low, graved in the hollow ground."


Grave  v. i.  (past graved; past part. graven; pres. part. graving)  To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.


suffix
-grave  suff.  A final syllable signifying a ruler, as in landgrave, margrave. See Margrave.





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... shot, in great numbers, had entered her hull and were sticking to her sides. How the officers and crew escaped unhurt is almost impossible to conceive. The poor captain was immediately taken on shore, but only survived his wound a few days. He had a public funeral, and was followed to the grave by all the Americans in Gibraltar, and very many of the officers of the garrison and inhabitants ...
— American Merchant Ships and Sailors • Willis J. Abbot
... must begin by admitting that ... Where no government is wanted, save that of the parish constable, as in America with its boundless soil, every man being able to find work and recompense for himself, democracy may subsist; not elsewhere." Amid the grave misgivings of the first generation of statesmen, America was committed to the great adventure, in the populous towns of the East as well as in the forests and fields of ...
— History of the United States • Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard
... teacher. I have at times entered schools as a visitor when the mistress has immediately made the children show off by singing in succession a dozen pieces, as if they were a musical box. Thus to sing without bounds is a very likely way to bring the mistress to an early grave, and injure the lungs of the dear little children. Use as not abusing is the proper rule, tar all the new modes of teaching and amusing children that I have introduced; but it has often appeared to me that abuse it as much as possible was the rule acted upon. Call upon the ...
— The Infant System - For Developing the Intellectual and Moral Powers of all Children, - from One to Seven years of Age • Samuel Wilderspin
... in such an occasion. What may be the perfect grammar of Mr. Clarke, it cannot establish any sort of equality between you and I. then I will trust with my heart alone to supply the deficiency. let us speak upon a grave subject: do I see you that morning? What news from Captain phillip? when do you come spend a large week in that house? every question requires an exact answer; a good, also. my happiness depends on it, and I have ...
— The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay Volume 3 • Madame D'Arblay
... since I saw you. Is this scorn? Delilah can scarcely believe that. Does it not rather result from the tyranny of a woman whom, as you told me, you can no longer love? Wenceslas, you are too great an artist to submit to such dominion. Home is the grave of glory.—Consider now, are you the Wenceslas of the Rue du Doyenne? You missed fire with my father's statue; but in you the lover is greater than the artist, and you have had better luck with his daughter. You are a ...
— Poor Relations • Honore de Balzac


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