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Webster 1913 Edition
Enwomb
En-womb′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Enwombed
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Enwombing
.] 1.
To conceive in the womb.
[Obs.]
Spenser.
2.
To bury, as it were in a womb; to hide, as in a gulf, pit, or cavern.
Donne.
Webster 1828 Edition
Enwomb
ENWOMB
,Verb.
T.
1.
To bury; to hide as in a gulf; pit or cavern.Definition 2024
enwomb
enwomb
English
Alternative forms
Verb
enwomb (third-person singular simple present enwombs, present participle enwombing, simple past and past participle enwombed)
- (poetic, archaic) To place or cause to be contained in the womb; to make pregnant; to conceive.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.6:
- For not as other wemens commune brood / They were enwombed in the sacred throne / Of her chaste bodie [...].
- 2007, John Goldingay, David Payne, Isaiah 40-55 Vol 2: A Critical and Exegetical Commentary, Continuum International Publishing Group, ISBN 9780567030726:
- Dahood hypothesizes an occurrence of a verb rihham ('to conceive, enwomb')
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.6:
- (poetic or archaic) To enclose.
References
- Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, Vol. III, Page 1959, enwomb