enwomb

English

Alternative forms

• inwomb

Etymology

From en- +‎ womb.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uːm

Verb

enwomb (third-person singular simple present enwombs, present participle enwombing, simple past and past participle enwombed)

1. (poetic, archaic) To place or cause to be contained in the womb; to make pregnant; to conceive.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     For not as other wemens commune brood / They were enwombed in the sacred throne / Of her chaste bodie [...].

   • 2007, John Goldingay, David Payne, Isaiah 40-55 Vol 2: A Critical and Exegetical Commentary‎^[1], Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN:

     Dahood hypothesizes an occurrence of a verb rihham ('to conceive, enwomb')

2. (poetic or archaic) To enclose.

References

• Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, Vol. III, Page 1959, enwomb

Anagrams

• bowmen, womben