ink

Word Origin & History

"the black liquor with which men write" [Johnson], mid-13c., from Old French enque "dark writing fluid" (11c.), from Late Latin encaustum, from Greek enkauston "purple or red ink," used by the Roman emperors to sign documents, originally a neuter adjective form of enkaustos "burned in," from stem of enkaiein "to burn in," from en- "in" + kaiein "to burn" (see caustic). The word is from a Greek method of applying colored wax and fixing it with heat. The Old English word for it was simply blæc, literally "black." Ink-blot test attested from 1928.

Example Sentences forink

There is a reference to “pen and ink” in the 3d Epistle of John xiii.

Strange, that the mere identity of paper and ink should be so powerful.

You could see them as plain as if they was painted on the moon with ink.

There was paper, there was ink and there was a pen with a new nib in it, and blotting paper!

But it is time to lay down my pen, since my ink runs nothing but gall.

But I must carry down your pen and ink: and that this moment.

When it fails, it is in consequence of some peculiarity in the composition of the ink.

And he produced a little case in which there were pen and ink.

But the night was black as ink, the darkness had submerged the horizon.

The darkness was like ink, and there was not a sound, a breath; the silence was complete.

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