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immerge, v. Now rare.|ɪˈmɜːdʒ, ɪmm-|
(Also erron. emerge.)
[ad. L. immergĕre to dip, plunge, sink (into), immerse, f. im- (im-1) + mergĕre to merge. Cf. F. immerger.]
1. trans. To dip, plunge, put under the surface of a liquid; to immerse.
1624Harington's Sch. Salerne ii. 37 The eyes are not only to be washed, but being open plainly, immerg'd. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. ii. iv. §4 They pour not water upon the Heads of Infants, but immerge them in the Font. 1664Power Exp. Philos. ii. 107 The deeper you immerge the Tube, the higher still will the Quicksilver in the Tube rise. 1770Phil. Trans. LX. 304 A second method of preserving birds is, by immerging them in spirits. 1828Hutton Course Math. II. 271 Immerge it in boiling water.
†b. fig. To ‘drown’, ‘submerge’. Obs.
1644Jus Populi 34 The right of Fathers..is now emerged or made subordinate. 1765Meretriciad 11 Nor let thy wit immerge thy reason too.
2. transf. and fig. To plunge into a state of action or thought, way of living, etc.; = immerse v. 2.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. viii. (1632) 583 [They] immerge themselues and their abetters into bottomlesse seruitudes and distresses. 1750Johnson Rambler No. 65 ⁋7 We entangle ourselves in business, immerge ourselves in luxury. 1829Landor Imag. Conv. Wks. 1846 II. 49/2 [He] would immerge his country for twenty years in the most calamitous war.
3. intr. (for refl.) To plunge or dip oneself in a liquid; to sink. Also transf. and fig.
1706E. Baynard in Sir J. Floyer Hot & Cold Bath ii. 226 They have recovered by immerging into Cold Water. 1747Wesley Prim. Physic (1762) 76 Immerge up to the Breast in a warm Bath. 1779–81Johnson L.P., Swift Wks. III. 380 He was now immerging into political controversy. 1841Emerson Addr., Meth. Nature Wks. (Bohn) II. 227 And then immerge again into the holy silence and eternity out of which as a man he arose.
†b. spec. of a celestial body: To enter the shadow of another in an eclipse, or to disappear behind another in an occultation; to sink below the horizon. Obs.
1704J. Hodgson in Phil. Trans. XXV. 1638 At London she [the moon] immerg'd at 38 minutes past 5. 1775R. Chandler Trav. Asia Minor (1825) I. 4 The lower half of the orb soon after immerged in the horizon. 1786–7Bonnycastle Astron. x. 172 When the satellite immerges into, or emerges out of Jupiter's shadow.
†c. Of a title or estate: To become merged or absorbed in that of a superior, so as no longer to have separate existence; to merge. Obs.
1750Carte Hist. Eng. II. 868 Most of the great nobility had been destroyed..the bulk of their estates immerging into the crown. 1752Ibid. III. 552 Her son..to whom the title of Lennox upon its immerging in the crown, had been granted. |