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English
Etymology
From im- + bathe.
Verb
imbathe (third-person singular simple present imbathes, present participle imbathing, simple past and past participle imbathed)
- Obsolete form of embathe.
1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: [Comus], London: [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, , published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:And gave her to his daughters to imbathe / In nectared lavers strewed with asphodel.
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