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▪ I. † emˈbalm, n. Obs. rare.
[f. next.]
Spice for embalming.
1642G. Hughes Art of Embalming Dead Saints 8 The proposition of the confection of Embalme it selfe, together with its force or vertue.
▪ II. embalm, v.|ɛmˈbɑːm|
Forms: 4 enbaume, -bawme, 5 -bame, 6 en-, embaulme, -baum, -balme, 6– embalm. Also 6 inbau(l)me, 7 imbalm(e.
[ME. enbaume, a. F. embaume-r, f. en- (see en-) + baume balm n.]
I.
1. To impregnate (a dead body) with spices, to preserve it from decay.
c1340Cursor M. 16873 They..wyth oynementes the body enbawmyd. c1385Chaucer L.G.W. 676 Let the corse enbaume. a1400–50Alexander 3319 Þan was his body enbawmed · &, as he bede, graven. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 136/3 The body enbamed wythin the tombe. 1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 313 They had before his buriall embaulmed his body. 1611Bible Gen. I. 26 They imbalmed him and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. 1613Shakes. Hen. VIII, iv. ii. 170, I was a chaste Wife to my Grave: Embalme me, Then lay me forth. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 170 They brought it to the place where they say he was imbalmed. 1644Milton Areop. (Arb.) 35 A good Booke is the pretious life-blood of a master spirit imbalm'd and treasur'd up on purpose to a life beyond life. 1685J. Cooke Marrow of Chirurgery (ed. 4) vi. iii. ii, The Heart, which may be embalm'd with the body. 1744Berkeley Siris §15 In Egypt they embalmed dead bodies with it [tar]. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 457 The body when shrunk and embalmed, as is the custom in Egypt.
2. transf. To preserve (a corpse) from decay by other means, as by cold, etc. rare.
1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. xix. 240 The frost has embalmed their remains.
3. fig.
a. To preserve from oblivion; chiefly in good sense, to keep in sweet and honoured remembrance.
1675Traherne Chr. Eth. xxi. 343 Being enbalmed as it were by eternity. 1722Wollaston Relig. Nat. v. 118 Some second Homer, in whose sheets his [Alexander's] name might be imbalmed for ages to come. 1791Boswell Johnson (1816) I. Introd. 1 That..elegance of language in which he has embalmed so many. 1820Hazlitt Lect. Dram. Lit. 23 The lines ought to embalm his memory. 1850Tennyson In Mem. Concl. iv, To embalm In dying songs a dead regret. 1864Kirk Chas. Bold I. iii. 166 That universal dread of poison which had embalmed itself in one of the commonest ceremonies of the feudal household.
b. nonce-use.
18..H. or J.? Smith Address to a Mummy in Belzoni's Exhibition (last verse), Oh! let us keep the soul, embalmed and pure in living virtue.
II.
4. †a. To salve or anoint with aromatic spices, oil, etc. (obs.) b. To endue with balmy fragrance.
1393Langl. P. Pl. C. xiv. 107 Þe bisshop þat blessed ȝow and embaumede ȝoure fyngeres. Ibid. xx. 86 With þe blod of that barn embaumed and baptized. 1447O. Bokenham Seyntys 79 For wyth heuynly deu she enbalmyd was. 1511Barclay Cyt. & Uplondyshm. 36 With fragrant savour inbaumeth all the house. 1563Homilies ii. Excess Appar. (1859) 315 In painting our faces..in embalming our bodies. 1667Milton P.L. ii. 842 The buxom air, imbalm'd With odours. 1746–7Hervey Medit. & Contempl. (1818) 139 They reserve their richest exhalations to embalm his morning and evening walks. 1877Bryant May Even. vi, Among the opening buds thy breathings pass, And come embalmed away.
†5. To steep (e.g. in poison). Obs. rare—1.
1623Favine Theat. Hon. ii. v. 90 Let flie their darts and arrowes embalmed in venemous hearbs. |