engrosser
English
Noun
engrosser (plural engrossers)
- One who copies a piece of writing in large, attractive characters.
- One who takes the whole; a purchaser of such quantities in a market as to raise the price; a forestaller.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Locke to this entry?)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for engrosser in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.se/
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Conjugation
Conjugation of engrosser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | engrossant /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | engrossé /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.se/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | engrosser | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | engrossant /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | engrosse /ɑ̃.ɡʁos/ |
engrosses /ɑ̃.ɡʁos/ |
engrosse /ɑ̃.ɡʁos/ |
engrossons /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sɔ̃/ |
engrossez /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.se/ |
engrossent /ɑ̃.ɡʁos/ |
| imperfect | engrossais /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sɛ/ |
engrossais /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sɛ/ |
engrossait /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sɛ/ |
engrossions /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sjɔ̃/ |
engrossiez /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sje/ |
engrossaient /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | engrossai /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.se/ |
engrossas /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sa/ |
engrossa /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sa/ |
engrossâmes /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sam/ |
engrossâtes /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sat/ |
engrossèrent /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sɛʁ/ | |
| future | engrosserai /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sʁe/ |
engrosseras /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sʁa/ |
engrossera /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sʁa/ |
engrosserons /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sʁɔ̃/ |
engrosserez /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sʁe/ |
engrosseront /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | engrosserais /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sʁɛ/ |
engrosserais /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sʁɛ/ |
engrosserait /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sʁɛ/ |
engrosserions /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
engrosseriez /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sə.ʁje/ |
engrosseraient /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | engrosse /ɑ̃.ɡʁos/ |
engrosses /ɑ̃.ɡʁos/ |
engrosse /ɑ̃.ɡʁos/ |
engrossions /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sjɔ̃/ |
engrossiez /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sje/ |
engrossent /ɑ̃.ɡʁos/ |
| imperfect2 | engrossasse /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sas/ |
engrossasses /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sas/ |
engrossât /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sa/ |
engrossassions /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sa.sjɔ̃/ |
engrossassiez /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sa.sje/ |
engrossassent /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | engrosse /ɑ̃.ɡʁos/ |
— | engrossons /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.sɔ̃/ |
engrossez /ɑ̃.ɡʁo.se/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “engrosser” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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