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embay en · VERB · etymology 1
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Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Proto-Italic *en-
Latin in-
Old French en-bor.
Middle English en-
English em-
English bay
English embay
From em- + bay (“bathe”).
Meanings
(obsolete, transitive) To bathe; to steep.
Their ſwords both points and edges ſharpe embay / In purple bloud, where ſo they hit or light[…] 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Twelfth Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 62, page 225:
Sweete Loue, that doth his golding wings embay / In bleſſed Nectar, and pure Pleaſures well[…]. 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 560:
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embaying
Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part
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embays
Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres
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embayed
Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part
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embayed
Tense=Past
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embay en · VERB · etymology 2
Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Proto-Italic *en-
Latin in-
Old French en-bor.
Middle English en-
English em-
English bay
English embay
From em- + bay.
Meanings
(transitive) To shut in, enclose, shelter or trap, such as ships in a bay.
Hebrew the profile, every line; / But as in haven fringed with palm, / Which Indian reefs embay from harm, / Belulled as in the vase the wine— / Red budded corals in remove, / Peep coy through quietudes above; […] 1876, Herman Melville, “Canto XVII”, in Walter E. Bezanson, editor, Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land […], New York, N.Y.: Hendricks House, published 1960, →OCLC, part I (Jerusalem), page 56, lines 176–183:
Herself the only daughter of a struggling man of letters, she had during the last year or two taken to writing poems, in an endeavour to find a congenial channel in which to let flow her painfully embayed emotions, whose former limpidity and sparkle seemed departing in the stagnation caused by the routine of a practical household and the gloom of bearing children to a commonplace father. 1912, Thomas Hardy, “An Imaginative Woman”, in Life’s Little Ironies […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC, page 7: