Graven (word)

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Graven is, simply put, something fashioned by man, or something man-made. Anything made by man's hands to a material state is graven. To 'engrave' something is to carve into it, and carving is done by the hands of man. Graven can also be an implication to something that is made, that is not alive, but made dead, from the grave.