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单词 imbrue
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imbruev.

Brit. /ɪmˈbruː/, U.S. /ᵻmˈbru/
Forms: Middle English enbrewe, en-, imbrowe, 1500s–1600s imbrewe, 1500s–1700s embrew, imbrew, 1500s– embrue, imbrue.
Etymology: < Old French embreuver ‘to moisten, bedeaw, soake in, soften with liquor; also, to die, indue, imbue’ (Cotgrave), metathetic form of emb(e)uvrer, embev(e)rer, < em- < Latin im- + -bevrer (Italian -beverare) < *biberāre, < Latin bibĕre to drink.
1. transitive. To stain, dirty, defile. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > soil [verb (transitive)] > stain
mealeOE
litc1230
beblotc1374
depaintc1374
entachc1374
stain1382
tache1390
wem1398
molec1400
blob1429
blotc1440
imbruec1450
maculate?a1475
thorough-stain1593
commaculatec1616
stigmatizea1637
tattoo1774
staddle1828
bestain1869
c1450 [implied in: J. Lydgate Stans Puer (Lamb. 853) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 29 With mouþ enbrowide þi cuppe þou not take. (at imbrued adj. a)].
c1460 J. Russell Bk. Nurture 331 Enbrewe not youre table..ne þer-vppon ye wipe youre knyffes.
c1475 Babees Bk. (Harl. 5086) (2002) i. 6 Whanne ye shalle drynke, your mouthe clence..Youre handes eke that they in no manere Imbrowe the cuppe.
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. iii. f. 100 When their fingers are imbrued with any ounctuous meates.
1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 119/2 How can a man touche whot pitche..and be not embrued?
1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 13 b Stayning Berries, which embrued my hands.
2.
a. To stain, dye (one's hand, sword, etc.) in or with (blood, slaughter, etc.).
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > colour > colouring > staining > stain [verb (transitive)]
distain1393
wanhuea1500
colour1501
imbrue1529
stain1655
restain1843
imbue1850
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > soil [verb (transitive)] > stain or smear with blood
bebloodyc1210
bebleedc1230
begore?1518
blood1522
imbrue1529
bloody1530
gore1566
engore1593
sanguine1610
gild1614
beblood1623
bleed1634
ensanguine1667
bloodstain1798
vermilion1817
imbue1850
1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes iv, in Wks. 259/1 From howre to howre embruinge theyr handes in bloode.
1577 M. Hanmer tr. Socrates Scholasticus iv. xxix, in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. 340 Thy right hand is imbrued with slaughter and bloodshed.
1649 O. Cromwell Let. 17 Sept. in Writings & Speeches (1939) (modernized text) II. 127 These barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood.
1658 R. White tr. K. Digby Late Disc. Cure Wounds (1660) 138 A clout or rag of cloth embrued with the blood.
c1704 M. Prior Henry & Emma 273 These hands in murder are imbrued.
1813 W. Scott Rokeby iv. vi. 160 Who has not heard how brave O'Neale In English blood embrued his steel?
1848 A. Jameson Sacred & Legendary Art II. 181 They started back, unwilling to imbrue their hands in the blood of their host.
b. Said of blood or bleeding wounds. Now rare.
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1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres iii. lxxxii. sig. Q2v There lies that comely body all imbrude With that pure bloud, mixt with that fowle he shed.
1636 G. Sandys Paraphr. Psalmes David cxxxvi Ægyptians..Whose wounds the thirsty Earth imbrew.
1776 W. J. Mickle tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad 459 His son's life-gore his wither'd hands imbrews.
1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision I. xii. 51 Shallow more and more the blood became, So that at last it but imbru'd the feet.
3. In pregnant sense (with blood understood):
a. said of a person; also absol.
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1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. iv. 193 What shall we haue incision? shall we imbrew?
1718 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad IV. xiv. 602 What Chief, what Hero first embru'd the Field?
b. of a weapon piercing a part.
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c1580 Sir P. Sidney tr. Psalmes David xxxvii. x Their swordes shall their own hartes imbrew.
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream v. i. 339 Come trusty sword, Come blade, my breast imbrew.
c. with the weapon as object: to thrust, plunge, flesh. Obsolete.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > cut of sharp weapon > cut or penetrate (of weapon) [verb (transitive)] > strike with pointed weapon > thrust a pointed weapon
putc1275
shovec1275
rivec1330
stickc1390
stub1576
haft1582
uphilt1582
gar1587
embosom1590
emboss1590
flesh1590
imbrue1590
stabc1610
scour1613
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. xii. sig. Oo6 A murdrous knife..The which he thought..In her tormented bodie to embrew.
1712 A. Pope tr. Statius First Bk. Thebais in Misc. Poems 48 In their Hearts embrues her cruel Claws.
1749 T. Smollett Regicide v. vi. 73 And in th' Assassin's Heart Imbrew'd my faithful Steel.
Categories »
d. Heraldry. To stain with blood: see imbrued adj.
4. To soak, steep in, or saturate with any moisture. Also absol. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > action or process of soaking or steeping > soak or steep [verb (transitive)]
imbibec1386
steepc1400
soaka1425
temper1490
delay1526
imbruea1575
seethe1599
embalm1623
imbute1657
infund1657
elixate1658
puddle1701
sug1706
sop1853
a1575 N. Harpsfield Treat. Divorce Henry VIII (1878) (modernized text) 200 The stones were imbrued with the tears of her devout eyes.
1596 P. Barrough Method of Phisick (ed. 3) viii. 447 When all these [materials] be brused, imbrue them in the iuyce of Fumitory.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 211 One out of curiositie I tasted of, which..malignantly bit..my mouth and lips, as if Vitrioll and Sulphur had beene imbrued.
5. figurative. To steep in; to imbue with; to infect.
ΘΚΠ
society > education > teaching > instilling ideas > instil ideas [verb (transitive)] > instil person with ideas
infecta1387
imbue1555
infuse1560
imbrue1565
instil1644
impregnate1652
inoculate1784
indoctrinate1832
brainwash1951
the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > introduction or bringing in > introduce or bring something in [verb (transitive)] > infuse
sheda1325
bedew1340
distil1393
informa1398
transfusec1425
pourc1451
infudea1500
infuse1526
tan1530
colour1536
suck1549
imbrue1565
dewc1572
inspire1576
steep1603
infect1605
imbreathe1609
impregn1652
transfund1670
influence1691
bleed1866
render1885
taste1904
1565 M. Harding in J. Jewel Def. Apol. (1611) 344 Cornelius Agrippa..was imbrewed with Heresies that sprang vp in his time.
1610 S. Rid Martin Mark-all sig. Bivv Their mindes were imbrued with such follies.
1639 R. Gentilis tr. P. Sarpi Hist. Inquisition 60 It is done for feare least they should be embrewed with some false Doctrine.
1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 43 ‘Whereness’ is a word, which..is almost quite embrew'd in Body if not altogether.
6. ‘To pour, to emit moisture’ (Johnson).
ΚΠ
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. v. sig. R Some bathed kisses, and did soft embrew The sugred licour through his melting lips.

Derivatives

imˈbruing n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [noun] > dirtying
imbruingc1475
befoulment1862
c1475 Babees Bk. (Harl. 5086) (2002) i. 6 On the borde lenynge be yee nat sene, But from embrowyng the clothe yee kepe clene.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Imbruynge, Loke defilynge.
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