This is called in Scripture ‘a just man,’ that endeavoureth himself to leave all wickedness.—Latimer, Sermons, p. 340.
One thing I do, I forget that which is behind, and endevour myself into that which is before.—Phil. iii. 13. Geneva.
Engrave. This word has now quite lost the sense of ‘to bury,’ which it once possessed. See ‘Grave.’
So both agree their bodies to engrave;
The great earthes womb they open to the sky; ...
They lay therein those corses tenderly.
Spenser, Fairy Queen, ii. 1, 60.
And now with happy wish he closely craved
For ever to be dead, to be so sweet ingraved.
Britain’s Ida, iv. 2.