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† embrake, v. Obs.
Also 6 enbrake, 7 imbrake.
[f. en- + brake n.]
trans. To lead into a brake or snare, entangle.
1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 286 Enbraked in the middes of those mortalle streights. 1599Nashe Lent. Stuffe 65 Hee would..hamper and embrake her in those mortal straights for her disdain. 1613–18Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. 108 (D.) John..imbraked the state and himselfe in those miserable incombrances thorow his violences. 1628tr. Mathieu's Powerfull Favorite 50 We haue not leisure to imbrake [implicare] our selues in these broiles. |