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Webster 1828 Edition


Imbrued

IMBRU'ED

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Wet; moistened; drenched.

Definition 2024


imbrued

imbrued

English

Verb

imbrued

  1. simple past tense and past participle of imbrue

Adjective

imbrued (comparative more imbrued, superlative most imbrued)

  1. (obsolete) Stained with blood; wounded, bloody.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.6:
      Whereas she found the Goddesse with her crew, / After late chace of their embrewed game, / Sitting beside a fountaine in a rew [...].
    • 1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima.
      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.
  2. (heraldry) Stained with blood.