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embread en · VERB

Etymology

From em- + bread.

Meanings

1. (obsolete, rare) To convert into bread.
   • I explain, in the simplest way possible, that "pan" means "bread," so "empanizada" must mean that the Callo is "embreaded." 1868, Charles Stephen Grueber, A Reply to the "Remarks" of the Rev. C. A. Heurtley:
   • But now we must beleue that he cometh downe agayn at the wyll of the prestes, to be inpaned or inbreaded for their bellyes common welthe, lyke as he afore came downe, at the wyll of hys heuenlye father, to be incarnated or infleshed for our vnyuersall sowles helth. 1547, John Bale, The First Examinacion of Anne Askewe:
   • If christes bodye be in thee bred (as vndoubtedly it is) then it is enbreaded & his bloude enwyued, whych was alway taken for a great heresy, In respect wherof transubstantiacion nedes muste be graunted as ryght true and beleueable. 1548, Edmund Gest, A Treatise Againste the Preuee Masse:

Forms

Synonyms

impanate