| 释义 |
† disemˈbrace, v. Obs.
[f. dis- 6 + embrace v.]
trans. a. To refrain or withdraw from embracing. b. To undo embracing or the embraces of anything. Hence disemˈbracing ppl. a.; also disemˈbracement, the act of disembracing.
1638Mayne Lucian (1664) 187 They bedust one another, to hinder dis-imbracements..and by drying his body, to strengthen his hold on his adversary. 1641J. Sherman Grk. in Temple 21 The teacher of the Gentiles instructeth us Christians not to disembrace goodness in any, nor truth in any. 1775S. J. Pratt Liberal Opin. (1783) I. 192 Torn away by the disembracing grasp of death. |