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immersed, ppl. a.|ɪˈmɜːst|
[f. immerse v. + -ed1.]
Dipped, plunged, or sunk in, or as in, a liquid. Also fig.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §36. 553 He does not seem to understand thereby, such a deeply Immersed Soul, as would make the World an Animal, and a God. 1812Playfair Nat. Phil. (1819) I. 181 The centre of gravity of the immersed part.
b. Baptized by immersion.
1892Daily News 1 Nov. 6/6 My question is whether [he] is an immersed believer?
c. Growing wholly under water.
1860Gray cited in Worcester.
d. Biol. Sunken or embedded in a surface.
1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. IV. 314 Immersed, when they [the eyes] are quite imbedded in the head. 1833Sir W. Hooker Smith's Eng. Flora V. i. 172 Urceolaria cinerea—apothecia immersed solitary. 1870J. D. Hooker Stud. Flora 159 Sium angustifolium..Fruit shorter than in S. latifolium, with more immersed vittæ.
†e. Astron. Plunged in darkness, eclipsed.
1667Boyle in Phil. Trans. II. 597 The Light of the immersed Body. 1854Moseley Astron. xviii. (ed. 4) 85 The enlightened hemisphere now includes the south pole, and the north is immersed. |