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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
imbalm .
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Examples
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After he was thus dead, his bodie was imbalmed, and séered, and couered with lead, all saue the face, to the intent that all men might sée him, and perceiue that he was departed this life: for as the corps was conueied from Pomfret to
Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV Raphael Holinshed
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Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Areopagitica: A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing: Paras 1-19 1909
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