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embar, v.|ɛmˈbɑː(r)|
Also (6 imber) 6–7 imbar(re.
[ad. F. embarrer, f. en- (see en-) + barre bar; cf. Pr. and Sp. embarrar, It. imbarrare.]
1. trans. To enclose within bars; to enclose, imprison. Also fig. arch.
1594Nashe Unfort. Trav. 27 If there bee anie sparke of Adams Paradized perfection yet imberd vp in the breastes of mortall men. 1596Spenser F.Q. i. vii. 44 Fast embar'd in mighty brazen wall. 1600Fairfax Tasso iii. lv, Three sides are sure imbard. Ibid. xii. i, Now in dark night was all the world embard. 1603Florio Montaigne ii. xii. (1632) 314 There is great reason why the spirit of man should be so strictly embarred. 1855Singleton Virgil I. 42 The ground began..the ocean to embar.
2. To oppose a barrier to; to arrest, stop; to interrupt. Also, to impede (commerce) by an embargo. arch. or Obs.
1577Holinshed Chron. II. 25/1 Not imbard from his posting pase, by reason the towne was not perclosed. 1583Stanyhurst Aeneis i. (Arb.) 30 Venus embarring his tale..sweetlye replyed. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 290 He..lay readie to embarre the Turks passage..out of Asia. 1622Bacon Hen. VII Wks. (1860) 398 The King..embarred also all farther trade for the future. a1662Heylin Laud i. 160 Embarred their trade.
†b. Law. To put a stop or end to; to forbid by legislative enactment; to bar (a claim, a title) = bar v. 5 b. Obs.
1542–3Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII, c. 20 (title) An act to embarre feined recoueries of landes, wherin the kinges maiestie is in reuercion. 1599Shakes. Hen. V, i. ii. 94 To imbarre their crooked Titles Vsurpt from you.
†3. To exclude, prohibit, debar (a person) from an action. Rare const. to with inf. Obs.
c1506Plumpton Corr. 201 Ye be aboutward against all right to imbarr & exclud my Chapleyn. 1562Apol. Priv. Masse (1850) 9 Embarring none to communicate with him. 1565Jewel Repl. Harding (1611) 11 To imbarre the people from reading and vnderstanding of the Scriptures. 1582N.T. (Rhem.) Pref., The Church doth it..not to embarre them from the true knowledge of Christ. 1583Stanyhurst Aeneis iv. (Arb.) 107 What reason embars theym, soom forreyn countrye to ferret? 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 107 So embarring them from all government in the common wealth.
†b. To refuse, deny (something) to a person.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xvi. (1632) 837 The French made choise of the Burgundian to protect them, which could not be embarred to them.
†4. To lay (persons or property) under embargo.
1647May Hist. Parl. i. i. 9 The English, whose goods were thereupon imbarr'd, and confiscate. 1649Milton Eikon. 79 The imbarring of all our Merchants in that kingdom.
†5. To break inwards the bars of (a helmet). Obs.
1480Caxton Ovid's Met. xii. x, But Achylles brake hys targe & his helme he embarred. |