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Immerse :: Immerse (v. t.) To engage deeply; to engross the attention of; to involve; to overhelm.

Ingross :: Ingross (v. t.) See Engross.

Chirography :: Chirography (n.) The art of writing or engrossing; handwriting; as, skilled in chirography..

Chirographer :: Chirographer (n.) One who practice the art or business of writing or engrossing.

Engross :: Engross (v. t.) To purchase either the whole or large quantities of, for the purpose of enhancing the price and making a profit; hence, to take or assume in undue quantity, proportion, or degree; as, to engross commodities in market; to engross power..

Engrosser :: Engrosser (n.) One who copies a writing in large, fair characters..

Absorption :: Absorption (n.) Entire engrossment or occupation of the mind; as, absorption in some employment..

Absorbing :: Absorbing (a.) Swallowing, engrossing; as, an absorbing pursuit..

Disengagement :: Disengagement (n.) Freedom from engrossing occupation; leisure.

Immersed :: Immersed (p. p. & a.) Deeply occupied; engrossed; entangled.

Engross :: Engross (v. t.) To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity..

Preoccupy :: Preoccupy (v. t.) To prepossess; to engage, occupy, or engross the attention of, beforehand; hence, to prejudice..

Chirograph :: Chirograph (n.) A writing which, requiring a counterpart, was engrossed twice on the same piece of parchment, with a space between, in which was written the word chirographum, through which the parchment was cut, and one part given to each party. It answered to what is now called a charter party..

Engrossment :: Engrossment (n.) The act of engrossing; as, the engrossment of a deed..

Engrosser :: Engrosser (n.) One who takes the whole; a person who purchases such quantities of articles in a market as to raise the price; a forestaller.

Engage :: Engage (v. t.) To employ the attention and efforts of; to occupy; to engross; to draw on.

Disengage :: Disengage (v. t.) To release from that with which anything is engaged, engrossed, involved, or entangled; to extricate; to detach; to set free; to liberate; to clear; as, to disengage one from a party, from broils and controversies, from an oath, promise, or occupation; to disengage the affections a favorite pursuit, the mind from study..

Rapt :: Rapt (a.) Wholly absorbed or engrossed, as in work or meditation..

Engross :: Engross (v. t.) To seize in the gross; to take the whole of; to occupy wholly; to absorb; as, the subject engrossed all his thoughts..

Absorbedly :: Absorbedly (adv.) In a manner as if wholly engrossed or engaged.

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