† imboskv.

Forms: Also 1500s -bosque.

Etymology: < Italian imboscare ‘to enter or goe into a wood, to take couert or shelter as a Deere doeth... Also to lay in ambush’ (Florio), < im- (im- prefix¹) + bosco wood. Compare emboss v.²

Obsolete.

a. reflexive. To hide or conceal oneself.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > conceal oneself [verb (reflexive)]

hidec897

wryOE

shroudc1402

imbosk1562

shrine1570

thick1574

mew1581

burrow1596

dern1604

earth1609

veil1614

ensconcea1616

abscond1626

perdue1694

secrete1764

to stow away1795

1562 J. Shute tr. in Two Comm. Turcks ii. f. 11 Scanderbeg..went as secretly as possyble, to imbosque him selfe neare to that place.

1612–20 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote (1675) iii. viii. 46 Sancho..requesting him to depart..and imbosk himself in the mountain.

1657 J. Sergeant Schism Dispach't 221 He cares not..what contradictions he maintains, so he can but imbosk himself handsomely in them.

b. intransitive for reflexive.

ΚΠ

1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 39 They seek the dark, the bushie, the tangled Forrest, they would imbosk.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	imbosk
释义	† imboskv. Forms: Also 1500s -bosque. Etymology: < Italian imboscare ‘to enter or goe into a wood, to take couert or shelter as a Deere doeth... Also to lay in ambush’ (Florio), < im- (im- prefix¹) + bosco wood. Compare emboss v.² Obsolete. a. reflexive. To hide or conceal oneself. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > conceal oneself [verb (reflexive)] hidec897 wryOE shroudc1402 imbosk1562 shrine1570 thick1574 mew1581 burrow1596 dern1604 earth1609 veil1614 ensconcea1616 abscond1626 perdue1694 secrete1764 to stow away1795 1562 J. Shute tr. in Two Comm. Turcks ii. f. 11 Scanderbeg..went as secretly as possyble, to imbosque him selfe neare to that place. 1612–20 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote (1675) iii. viii. 46 Sancho..requesting him to depart..and imbosk himself in the mountain. 1657 J. Sergeant Schism Dispach't 221 He cares not..what contradictions he maintains, so he can but imbosk himself handsomely in them. b. intransitive for reflexive. ΚΠ 1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 39 They seek the dark, the bushie, the tangled Forrest, they would imbosk. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < v.1562
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