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verbimbar (third-person singular simple present imbars, present participle imbarring, simple past and past participle imbarred)
present singular third person imbars · participle present imbarring · participle past imbarred · past imbarred
- obsoleteTo bar in; to secure with, or as if with, bars.
to imbar their crooked titles
1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]1 more example
intercourse of learning and knowledge was chiefly imbarred
1605, Francis Bacon, “The First Booke”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC, folio 29, recto
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