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▪ I. emblaze, v.1|ɛmˈbleɪz| Also imblaze. [f. en- + blaze n.1] 1. trans. To light up, illuminate, cause to glow.
1634Milton Comus 733 Th' unsought Diamonds..emblaze the forehead of the Deep. 1718Pope Iliad xiii. 433 Polish'd arms emblazed the flaming fields. 1746Hervey Medit. (1818) 186 Topaz, emblazed with a golden gleam. 1804J. Grahame Sabbath (1839) 18/1 Till..the sun Emblaze, with upward-slanting ray, the breast And wing unquivering of the wheeling lark. 1854Bailey Festus (ed. 5) 323 The golden pane the setting sun doth just Imblaze. 2. To set in a blaze, kindle. Also fig.
1728Pope Dunc. i. 235 Sulphur-tipt, emblaze an ale-house fire. 1747Collins Ode to Liberty ii, Where nearer suns emblaze its veins. 1815Month. Mag. XXXVIII. 534 Fires, lightning kindled, the tall oaks imblaze. ▪ II. emblaze, v.2|ɛmˈbleɪz| Also imblaze. [f. en- + blaze v.2] †1. a. trans. To describe heraldically. b. To set forth by means of heraldic devices. Cf. blaze v.2
1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, iv. x. 76 But thou shalt weare it as a Heralds coate, To emblaze the Honor that thy master got. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. vii. ii. (1632) 199 As Some of our Heralds have imblazed. 1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Wks. ii. 157/2 Marke how I will emblaze thee..Within a Quagmire-field, two Toades in Chiefe. 1781Westm. Mag. IX. 386 The Herald touches the bright fee, T' emblaze the brimstone of the vis-a-vis. 1782–1800in Bailey. 2. To adorn with heraldic devices. Hence (and influenced by emblaze v.1), to adorn magnificently, make resplendent.
1522Skelton Why not to Court, With crowns of gold emblased They make him so amased. 1667Milton P.L. i. 533 Th' Imperial Ensign..With Gemms and Golden lustre rich imblaz'd Seraphic arms and Trophies. 1717Pope Eloisa 136 No weeping orphan saw his father's stores Our shrines irradiate, or emblaze the floors. 1818Milman Samor 289 An enwoven tapestry of flame..emblaz'd Like hall of old barbaric Potentate. 3. To inscribe or portray conspicuously.
1590Greene Orl. Fur. Wks. 1831 I. 5 Where stout Hercules Emblaz'd his trophies on two posts of brass. 1667Milton P.L. v. 592 Or in thir glittering Tissues bear imblaz'd Holy Memorials. 1742Young Nt. Th. ix. 1660 Divine Instructor! Thy first volume..In moon, and stars..Emblaz'd to seize the sight. 1808J. Barlow Columb. vi. 246 Here herald glory first emblazed her name. 4. To inscribe (a person) on ‘the roll of fame’ (or of infamy); to celebrate, render famous or notorious.
1596C. Fitzgeffrey Sir F. Drake (1881) 65 Drake hath no Homer to emblaze his glorie. 1609Heywood Troia Brittanica in Farr S.P. Jas. (1848) 330 These harsh meeters..but to emblaze you, had yet been vnborne. 1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Wks. ii. 144/1 A Scritch-owle's quill..shall emblaze thee basest slaue of men. |