A.engrave, τινί upon a thing, D.H.2.55; “ἐς στάλλαν” IG12(2).67 (Mytilene); “εἰς τὸ ἱερόν” GDI2322.16 (Delph.), cf. Plu.Per.21, etc.; “κατά τινος” Id.Them.9; insert in a document, CPR19.18 (iv A.D.): metaph., imitate, “ἐ. τὸν Ἀντισθένειον τύπον” Jul.Or.7.217a:—Pass., “τὰ ἐγκεχαραγμένα ἀγαθά” OGI666.17 (i A.D.); μεγάλως ἐγκεχαραγμένος with a great record, Charito 2.6; of coins, Luc.Alex.58; “δραχμαὶ ἐγκεχαραγμέναι γράμμασιν Ἑλληνικοῖς ἐπίσημα” Peripl.M.Rubr.47; of soldiers, to be entered on a muster-roll, Agath.5.15.
II. to make an incision into a thing, Gp.5.38.2; scarify, Antyll. ap. Orib.7.16.3.