Meanings
verbembrew (third-person singular simple present embrews, present participle embrewing, simple past and past participle embrewed)
present singular third person embrews · participle present embrewing · participle past embrewed · past embrewed
- obsoleteObsolete spelling of imbrue.
Great ſhame it is, thing ſo diuine in vievv, / made for to be the vvorlds moſt ornament: / to make the bayte her gazers to embrevv, / good ſhames to be to ill an inſtrument.
1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet LIII”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, signature [D4], recto
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “embrew,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/embrew.
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