Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete spelling of
imbrue .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete See
imbrue ,embrew .
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- verb Variant of
imbrue .
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Examples
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The means of effecting his purpose were easy and various; but as he was not yet so entirely hardened as to be able to view her dying pangs, and embrue his own hands in her blood, he chose to dispatch her by means of poison, which he resolved to mingle in her food.
A Sicilian Romance 2004
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But the blood about to flow was French; it was therefore for these misguided people, already guilty of rebellion, to embrue their hands in the blood of their countrymen by striking the first blow.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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His father, a simple saddler, had so poor an appreciation of his son's magnanimity, that he apprenticed him to a butcher; but Hind's destiny was to embrue his hands in other than the blood of oxen, and he had not long endured the restraint of this common craft when forty shillings, the gift of his mother, purchased him an escape, and carried him triumphant and ambitious to London.
A Book of Scoundrels 1896
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His father, a simple saddler, had so poor an appreciation of his son's magnanimity, that he apprenticed him to a butcher; but Hind's destiny was to embrue his hands in other than the blood of oxen, and he had not long endured the restraint of this common craft when forty shillings, the gift of his mother, purchased him an escape, and carried him triumphant and ambitious to London.
A Book of Scoundrels Charles Whibley 1894
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In his opinion, they ought upon this occasion to follow the example of the ancient Romans, who, having no law against parricide, because their legislators supposed no son could be so unnaturally wicked as to embrue his hands in his father's blood, made a law to punish this heinous crime as soon as it was committed.
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds Charles Mackay 1851
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But the blood about to flow was French; it was therefore for these misguided people, already guilty of rebellion, to embrue their hands in the blood of their countrymen by striking the first blow.
The Memoirs of Napoleon Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de 1836
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But the blood about to flow was French; it was therefore for these misguided people, already guilty of rebellion, to embrue their hands in the blood of their countrymen by striking the first blow.
Memoirs of Napoleon — Volume 01 Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne 1801
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But the blood about to flow was French; it was therefore for these misguided people, already guilty of rebellion, to embrue their hands in the blood of their countrymen by striking the first blow.
Memoirs of Napoleon — Complete Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne 1801
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The means of effecting his purpose were easy and various; but as he was not yet so entirely hardened as to be able to view her dying pangs, and embrue his own hands in her blood, he chose to dispatch her by means of poison, which he resolved to mingle in her food.
A Sicilian Romance Ann Ward Radcliffe 1793
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In his opinion they ought upon this occasion to follow the example of the ancient Romans, who, having no law against parricide, because their legislators supposed no son could be so unnaturally wicked as to embrue his hands in his father's blood, made a law to punish this heinous crime as soon as it was committed.
yarb commented on the word embrue
Also spelled imbrue.
October 7, 2008