disembalm

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English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ embalm.

Verb

disembalm (third-person singular simple present disembalms, present participle disembalming, simple past and past participle disembalmed)

  1. (transitive) Hypothetically, to undo the embalming of.
    • 1879, Thomas Gordon Hake, Legends of the Morrow, page 8:
      Her thoughts perturb the broken urn / And seem the bones to disembalm: / She sifts the dust of days gone by; / Troubling the old eternity.
    • 1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table:
      [] the disembalming and unbandaging of all literary mummies []