engemv.
/ɛnˈdʒɛm/ rare.
transitive. To set with, or as with, gems; to bejewel.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > making jewellery or setting with jewels > set or stud (something) with gems [verb (transitive)]
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?1614 W. Drummond Sonnet: The Sunne is faire in Poems When clowds engemm'd hang azure, greene and Red.
1803–49 J. C. Mangan Poems (1859) 98 A ring, ingemmed with a chrysolite.
1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision III. xv. 67 I pray thee, living topaz! that ingemm'st This precious jewel, let me hear thy name.
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