embatheimbathev.
/ɛmˈbeɪð//ɪmˈbeɪð/ poetic.
a. transitive. To bathe, immerse, dip; to bedew, drench, suffuse.
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the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > make very wet [verb (transitive)]
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the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > action or process of immersing or dipping > immerse or dip [verb (transitive)]
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1593 Tell-Trothes New-yeares Gift 42 Whosoever inbathe themselves therein.
1596 C. Fitzgeffry Sir Francis Drake sig. B5v Imbath your..lofty quill In..Amber-dropping Castalalie [sic].
1606 C. Marlowe & G. Chapman Hero & Leander iii [Her love] that with immortall wine Should be embath'd, and swim in more hearts ease Than there was water in the Sestian seas.
1637 J. Milton Comus 29 Nereus..Gave her to his daughters to imbathe In nectar'd lavers.
1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 6 The sweet Odour of the returning Gospell [must] imbath his Soule with the fragrancy of Heaven.
1776 W. J. Mickle tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad 454 Embathe with gore Carpella's Cape.
1855 P. J. Bailey Mystic His limbs imbathed Amid immortal nymphs.
1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. vi. xxii. 425 The perfumes with which Mary of Bethany embathed his feet.
b. intransitive for reflexive.
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1817 Coleridge She dare..embathe in heavenly light.
Derivatives
emˈbathed adj. in quot. 1590 elliptical for embathed in perfume, hence fragrant.
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1590 E. Spenser Muiopotmos 194 Embathed Balme.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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