单词 | embox |
释义 | emboxv. transitive. To set in or as in a box; to enclose in a box. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > into or as into other specific receptacles > (as) into a box to box up?c1450 box1545 cask1562 embox1570 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 489/2 Thinkyng to finde refuge at the presence of the transubstantiated God of the aultar there caried and inboxed. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Emboister, to imboxe. 1732 H. Fielding Covent-Garden Trag. i. iii. 5 In Goodman's-Fields the City Dame Emboxed sits. 1828 C. Lamb Let. 25 Feb. (1935) III. 152 The watchmen are emboxed in a niche of fame. 1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xix. 289 More than thirty alternate layers of earth and web, emboxed, as it were, in each other. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < v.1570 |
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