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embathe, imbathe, v. poet.|ɛm-, ɪmˈbeɪð|
Also 6 inbathe, 6–7 imbath.
[f. en-, in- + bathe: cf. OF. embaigner, It. imbagnare.]
trans. To bathe, immerse, dip; to bedew, drench, suffuse.
1593Tell-Trothe's N.Y. Gift 42 Whosoever inbathe themselves therein. 1596C. Fitzgeffrey Sir F. Drake (1881) 22 Imbath your..lofty quill In..amber-dropping Castalie. 1606Chapman Cont. Marlowe's Hero & L. iii, [Her love] that with immortall wine Should be embath'd, and swim in more hearts ease Than there was water in the Sestian seas. 1634Milton Comus 835 Nereus..gave her to his daughters to embathe In nectared lavers. 1641― Reform. 2 The sweet odour of the returning gospel [must] imbathe his soul with the fragrancy of heaven. 1776Mickle tr. Camoen's Lusiad 454 Embathe with gore Carpella's Cape. 1855Bailey Mystic, His limbs imbathed Amid immortal nymphs. 1879Farrar St. Paul I. 425 The perfumes with which Mary of Bethany embathed his feet.
b. intr. for refl.
1817Coleridge, She dare..embathe in heavenly light.
Hence emˈbathed, ppl. a., in quot. elliptical for embathed in perfume, hence fragrant.
1590Spenser Muiopotmos 194 Embathed Balme. |