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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.
enwoom'. [from womb.] To make pregnant. [Not used.]
1.
To bury; to hide as in a gulf; pit or cavern.

Definition 2024


enwomb

enwomb

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Verb

enwomb (third-person singular simple present enwombs, present participle enwombing, simple past and past participle enwombed)

  1. (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')
  2. (poetic or archaic) To enclose.

References

  • Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, Vol. III, Page 1959, enwomb

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