Insculpo, inscúlpis, insculpsi, insculptum. insclpere. Scalpo scalpis derinarur. To ingraue, carue or entaile.Incisa & insculpta sunt publicis, æternisque monumentis. Plin. jun. In columuarum spiris insculpta. Plin. Grauen in.Insculptum monumenta Plin.Postibus insculpunt cornua.Ouid.Saxo insculpere aliquid. Hor. To cutte a thing in a stone.Literas tabellæ insculpere. Quin. Vt literis consignamus que monumentis mandare voluim9 sic ille in auimo res insculptas habebat.Cicer.So he had things printed in his minde.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
in-sculpo (inscalp-), psi, ptum, 3, v. a., to cut or carve in or upon, to engrave.I.Lit.(a). With dat. (poet. and in postAug. prose): summam patrimonii saxo (shortly before, incidere), Hor. S. 2, 3, 90: litteras tabellae, Quint. 1, 1, 27: elogium tumulo, Suet. Claud. 1: incisa et insculpta sunt publicis aeternisque monumentis praetoria ornamenta Pallantis, Plin. Ep. 8, 6, 14: usus luxuriantis aetatis signaturas pretiosis gemmis coepit insculpere, Macr. S. 7, 13, 11.—(b). With abl. (very rare): columna aenea insculptum, Liv. 2, 33, 9.—(g).Absol. (with abl. of manner): ara cum ingenti titulo Punicis Graecisque litteris insculpto, Liv. 28, 46, 16. — II.Trop., to engrave, imprint: natura insculpsit in mentibus, ut deos aeternos et beatos haberemus, Cic. N. D. 1, 17, 45: omnibus enim innatum est et in animo quasi insculptum, esse deos, id. ib. 1, 4, 12: in animo, id. Ac. 2, 1, 2.