disembalm en · VERB
Etymology
From dis- + embalm.
Meanings
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(transitive) Hypothetically, to undo the embalming of.
Her thoughts perturb the broken urn / And seem the bones to disembalm: / She sifts the dust of days gone by; / Troubling the old eternity.
1879, Thomas Gordon Hake, Legends of the Morrow, page 8:[…] the disembalming and unbandaging of all literary mummies […]
1857–1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes [Sr.], chapter III, in The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson and Company, published 1858, →OCLC, page 71:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| disembalming | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| disembalmed | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| disembalmed | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| disembalms | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |