immask

English

Etymology

From im- +‎ mask.

Verb

immask (third-person singular simple present immasks, present participle immasking, simple past and past participle immasked)

1. (obsolete) To cover, as with a mask; to disguise or conceal.
   • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

     immaske our noted outward garments

   • 1806, Andrew Becket, Socrates (poem):

     The thick, dark mists of hell
     Which envelop gaunt envy and hate
     Thus immask'd, and in seeming security

References

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