inwrought

From past participle of inwork.

inwrought (comparative more inwrought, superlative most inwrought)

1. Having a design that has been worked or woven in.
2. (figurative) Fixed, established, ingrained.
   • 1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, On the Loss od the Steamboat Ætna, page 96:

     Or wait the rolling tide;
     While boldly to the sky
     Her ensign, wreathing high,
     Inwrought with volumed smoke, and sparkling flame, she cast.

   • 1863, George Eliot, Romola, Volume II, Book II, Chapter X, page 104:

     As he had recovered his strength of body, he had recovered his self-command and the energy of his will; he had recovered the memory of all that part of his life which was closely inwrought with his emotions; and he had felt more and more constantly and painfully the uneasy sense of lost knowledge.

• (fixed, established, ingrained): See also Thesaurus:intrinsic