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embosom, imbosom, v.|ɛm-, ɪmˈbʊzəm|
Also 7 enbosome.
[f. en-, in- + bosom.]
1. trans. To take or press to one's bosom; to cherish in one's bosom; to embrace. † Also, to implant, plunge (a sting, weapon, etc.) in (another's) bosom (obs.). Chiefly fig. rare in mod. use.
α1590Spenser F.Q. ii. ii. 25 The handmayd.. glad t' embosome his affection vile. 1610G. Fletcher Christ's Vict. in Farr S.P. Jas. (1848) 67 Thus sought the dire enchauntresse in his minde Her guilefull bait to have embosomed. c1630Drummond of Hawthornden Poems Wks. (1711) 36/2 Tithon's wife embosom'd by him lies. 1645Quarles Sol. Recant. vii. 9 Anger rests Embosom'd..in foolish brests. 1729Savage Wanderer i. 380 Why embosom me a viper's sting? a1813A. Wilson Tears of Britain Poet. Wks. 158 Shall..such a monster..By Britons be..embosomed? 1874Pusey Lent. Serm. 459 All the Father embosometh the Son.
β1631Celestina i. 7 Suffering them [Muleteers] to imbosome them between their brests. 1671J. Flavel Fount. Life ii. 4 They lay as it were imbosomed in one another. 1806Moore From High Priest of Apollo ii. 40 Might he but pass the hours of shade Imbosomed by his Delphic maid.
2. transf.
a. To enclose, conceal, shelter, in the ‘bosom’. Often pass. to be enclosed, enveloped in, closely surrounded with (woods, foliage, mountains, etc.); poet., to be ‘wrapped’ in (slumber, happiness, beauty, etc.).
†b. refl. Of a river: To pour itself into the bosom of a larger stream (obs.).
α1685H. More Para. Proph. xiii, All sorts of people may safely embosom themselves in her. c1750Shenstone Elegies vii. 44 My distant home Which oaks embosom. 1764Goldsm. Trav. 282 Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. 1773Wilkes Corr. (1805) IV. 158 The vilages are happily embosomed with trees. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 501 This state [New York] embosoms vast quantities of iron ore. 18..Campbell On Visiting Scene in Argylsh. i, The wind-shaken weeds that embosom the bower. 1829Scott Anne of G. iii, One of those spots in which Nature often embosoms her sweetest charms. 1855Singleton Virgil I. 279 Deep sleep embosometh their jaded limbs. 1876Green Short Hist. x. §4. 798 What sepulchre embosoms the remains..of so much human excellence and glory? 1879C. Rossetti Seek & F. 24 The sky..over⁓arching and embosoming not earth and sea only, but clouds and meteors, planets and stars.
β1665Manley Grotins' Low-C. Warres 837 The River Vecht..imbosomes it self into the same [the Issell]. 1667Milton P.L. v. 597 By whom in bliss imbosom'd sat the Son. 1835Willis Pencillings ii. lx. 167 We walked..to a large old villa, imbosomed in trees. 1839Bailey Festus (ed. 5) 378 Thy heart imbosomed in all beauteousness.
Hence emˈbosomed, ppl. a., emˈbosoming vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1622–62Heylin Cosmogr. iii. (1682) 205 Since their embosoming and reconcilement to the Church of Rome. 1626Sandys Ovid's Metam. x. 205 She..Flusht with imbosomd flames. 1839Bailey Festus xviii. (1848) 184 The long imbosomed braid. 1859Farrar J. Home (1874) 9 The hill with its tall spire and embosoming trees. 1873Browning Red Cott. Nt.-Cap 660 Bosses of shrubs, embosomings of flowers. |