imbrued en · ADJ
Etymology
From imbrue + -ed.
Meanings
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(obsolete) Stained with blood; wounded, bloody.
Whereas she found the Goddesse with her crew, / After late chace of their embrewed game, / Sitting beside a fountaine in a rew [...].
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:He had a sense of his mind, which had been made up, falling to pieces again; but that sense in turn lost itself in a shudder which was already familiar—the horror of the public reappearance, on his part, of the imbrued hands of his mother.
1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima, London: Macmillan and Co.:
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Stained with blood.
He bears for Arms : Argent, on a chief vert, two spear-heads erect of the field, the points imbrued gules.
1895, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families: A Complete Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, and a Directory of Some Gentlemen of Coat-armour, and Being the First Attempt to Show which Arms in Use at the Moment are Borne by Legal Authority, page 133:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most imbrued | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more imbrued | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Synonyms
wounded · bloodstained · ablood (stained with blood) · sanguinolent · injured · hurt (wounded)