embrew

English

Verb

embrew (third-person singular simple present embrews, present participle embrewing, simple past and past participle embrewed)

1. Obsolete spelling of imbrue.
   • 1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet LIII”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, signature [D4], recto:

     Great ſhame it is, thing ſo diuine in vievv, / made for to be the vvorlds moſt ornament: / to make the bayte her gazers to embrevv, / good ſhames to be to ill an inſtrument.

References

• “embrew”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.