| 释义 |
embalming, vbl. n.|ɛmˈbɑːmɪŋ|
[f. embalm + -ing1.]
The action of the verb embalm. Also attrib.
1530Calisto & Mel. in Hazl. Dodsley I. 60 Their embalming and their unshamefacedness. 1626Bacon Sylva §771 The Embalming..no doubt was of the best. 1647H. More Poems Ded., The embalming of his name to Immortality. 1685J. Cooke Marrow of Chirurgery (ed. 4) vi. iii. ii, For Embalming having all things in readiness, etc. 1744Travels late Chas. Thompson III. 287 It seems natural before I leave this subject to say something of the Egyptian manner of embalming human bodies. 1867Trollope Chron. Barset I. xliii. 381 The embalming of her dear remains. 1883Harper's Mag. Mar. 539/2 Oh, that embalming smell! |