(senseid)puhekieltä To write (a document) in large, aesthetic, and legible lettering; to make a finalized copy of.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
some period long past, when clerks engrossed their stiff and formal chirography on more substantial materials
De Quincey
laws that may be engrossed on a finger nail
puhekieltä To buy up wholesale, especially to buy the whole supply of (a commodity etc.).
puhekieltä To monopolize; to concentrate (something) in the single possession of someone, especially unfairly.
1644, (w), Aeropagitica:
After which time the Popes of Rome, engrossing what they pleas'd of Politicall rule into their owne hands, extended their dominion over mens eyes, as they had before over their judgements, burning and prohibiting to be read, what they fancied not (..)
2007, John Burrow, A History of Histories, Penguin 2009, pp. 125-6:
Octavian then engrosses for himself proconsular powers for ten years in all the provinces where more than one legion was stationed, giving him effective control of the army.