emburse

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A form of imburse — To put into a purse; to save, to store up.

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Meanings

verbemburse (third-person singular simple present emburses, present participle embursing, simple past and past participle embursed)

present singular third person emburses · participle present embursing · participle past embursed · past embursed

  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of imburse.

    […] purchase all of the said Tract [of land] that Samⁿ Groome Emburse them the same or such pʳt thereof as they have not Received.

    1890, Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, volume XIII, Newark, N.J.: Daily Journal Establishment, →OCLC, page 103
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    Our Club cannot prosper unless we emburse / The Treasurer's wallet,—nay, quite the reverse, / From bad we shall only be getting to worse, / For the bowstring is strung by unstringing the purse; […]

    1860, The Sporting Magazine, volume XXXVI, London: Rogerson & Tuxford, →OCLC, page 212

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