Solemn, sedate, and serious in look and manner. This is the Latin gravis, grave; but “grave,” a place of interment, is the Anglo-Saxon grœf, a pit; verb, graf-an, to dig.
More grave than wise. “Tertius e cœlo cecĭdit Cato.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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