emburse

English

Verb

emburse (third-person singular simple present emburses, present participle embursing, simple past and past participle embursed)

1. Obsolete spelling of imburse.
   • 1860, The Sporting Magazine, volume XXXVI, London: Rogerson & Tuxford, →OCLC, page 212:

     Our Club cannot prosper unless we emburse / The Treasurer's wallet,—nay, quite the reverse, / From bad we shall only be getting to worse, / For the bowstring is strung by unstringing the purse; […]

   • 1890, Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, volume XIII, Newark, N.J.: Daily Journal Establishment, →OCLC, page 103:

     […] purchase all of the said Tract [of land] that Samⁿ Groome Emburse them the same or such p^rt thereof as they have not Received.

References

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

Anagrams

• Burmese, embrues