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Quotation dates: 1850
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¶INGRUSH, v. Also engrush. Appar. a variant form of Eng. engross, to monopolise, taken as = ingratiate. Only in the Carlyles.Sc. 1850 J. W. Carlyle Letters (Froude 1883) II. 107:
See if he don't “ingrush himself with the people”! . . . Mrs G. was as sweet as syrup . . . her husband engrushing himself.
