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enwomb, v.|ɛnˈwuːm|
Also 7–8 inwomb(e.
[f. en-1 + womb.]
1. trans. To cause to bear in the womb; to make pregnant. Also fig.
1590Spenser F.Q. ii. i. 50 Me then he left enwombed of this childe. 1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. x. xxxvii, Her daintie breasts..may seem to sight To be enwombed both of pleasure and delight.
2. To hold or to place in the womb. ? Obs.
1601Shakes. All's Well i. iii. 150, I am your mother, And put you in the Catalogue of those That were enwombed mine. a1625Boys Wks. (1630) 144 Mary did inwombe the Father of Mercies. 1647H. More Song of Soul iii. App. li, Him whose chaste soul enwombd in Virgin chast, etc. a1711Ken Hymns Evang. Wks. 1721 I. 205 God inwomb'd.
3. transf.
a. To contain as in the womb; in quots. fig.
b. To plunge into, bury in, the womb or bowels of (something); to enclose, shut up as in the womb.
a1591Spenser Ruins of Rome 67 Her great spirite rejoyned to the spirite Of thir great masse, is in the same enwombed. a1625Boys Wks. (1630) 10 The heaven of heavens cannot contain him [God], much lesse any barren braine inwombe him. a1631Donne Funeral Elegies (R.), The Affrique Niger streame enwombs Itselfe into the earth. 1633P. Fletcher Elisa xxx, Why is he living, then, in earth enwombed? 1840Browning Sordello v. 418, I enwomb Some wretched Friedrich with his red-hot tomb. 1855Singleton Virgil II. 442 If thou Enwombest such high courage in thy breast. 1859Miss Mulock Romant. T. 40 The dull dead metals that lie enwombed there.
Hence enˈwombed ppl. a., pregnant.
1820Shelley Witch Atl. x, Wondering how the enwombed rocks Could have brought forth so beautiful a birth. |