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Definition of Imbalmed
1. imbalm [v] - See also: imbalm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Imbalmed
Literary usage of Imbalmed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Marriage, Baptismal, and Burial Registers of the Collegiate Church Or by Joseph Lemuel Chester (1876)
"(—) Sir William Bartly,4 who died honorably in his Majesty's service at sea, and
was imbalmed by the Hollanders (who had taken his body with the ship ..."
2. The Philosophy of Nature; Or, The Influence of Scenery on the Mind and Heart by Charles Bucke (1813)
"Thou art the same, which still thou wert before, Delicious, lusty, amiable, fair;
But she, whose breath imbalmed thy wholesome air, Is gone; nor gold, ..."
3. Miscellaneous Works of Mr. John Greaves ...: Many of which are Now First by John Greaves, Thomas Birch (1737)
"... and forty days were fulfilled for him ; (for fo are fulfilled the days of
tho/e which are imbalmed^ And the ./Egyptians mourned for him three- ..."
4. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"... 'mummy; man's flesh imbalmed ; or rather the stuffe wherewith it hath been
long imbalmed ;' Cot.— Ital. mummia (cf. ..."
5. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"The Momia, which is some five or sixe miles beyond, are thousands of imbalmed
bodies; which were buried thousands of yeeres past in a sandy Cave; ..."
6. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"The Momia, which is some five or sixe miles beyond, are thousands of imbalmed
bodies; which were buried thousands of yeeres past in a sandy Cave; ..."
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