| 释义 |
entomb, v.|ɛnˈtuːm|
Also 6 entoumbe, 6–8 intomb(e, (6 intumb).
[a. OF. entoumbe-r, entumbe-r, Fr. entombe-r, f. en in (see en-) + tombe tomb.]
1. trans. To place in a tomb; to bury, inter.
α1578Hunnis Hyvefull Honye 130 Entoumbe thou me in Canaan. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 133 Therein is richly entombed Fatima, daughter and heire of their greatest Prophet Mahomet. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) I. 202 Here is entombed the heart of an unconquered hero. 1842Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 189 The remains of the dead found entombed in various parts of Europe.
β1576Fleming Panoplie Ep. 115 The exhibiting of deserved honor unto him after he was intumbed. 1611Speed Theat. Gt. Brit. vi. (1614) 11/1 K. Henry VI...was intombed at Windsor. 1775Adair Amer. Ind. 187 [The dead husband] is intombed in the house under her bed.
2. transf. and fig. To enclose as in a tomb; to overwhelm; to bury. Also absol.
1593Shakes. Lucr. 679 Entombs her outcry in her lips sweet fold. 1593Nashe Christ's T. 5 b, Thou art..entombed in Ashes like Gomorra. 1599― Lenten Stuffe (1871) They intomb and balist with sudden destruction. 1665J. Mall Offer of F. Help 118 Seas of wrath are..threatning to entomb you. 1742Young Nt. Th. ix. 2429 When Time..In Nature's ample ruins lies intomb'd. 1830Lyell Princ. Geol. (1875) II. iii. xlv. 526 During the great Earthquake of 1693 in Sicily, several thousand people were at once entombed in the ruins of caverns in limestone. 1874Morley Compromise (1886) 37 The spirit of the Church is eternally entombed within the four corners of acts of parliament.
3. To serve as a tomb for; to receive as in a tomb. lit. and fig.
a1631Donne Lett. (1651) 113 To seem to entomb those affections of mine to your service. 1633G. Herbert Temple, Ch. Porch viii, Let not a common ruine thee intombe. 1638Cowley Love's Riddle v. Wks. (1684) 117 Some steepy mountain bury me alive, Or Rock intomb me in its stony entrails! 1812H. & J. Smith Rej. Addr., Hampsh. Farmer, None of your ægyptian pyramids, to entomb subscribers' capitals. 1821Shelley Hellas 8 If Hell should entomb thee. |