emburse

English

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete) Alternative spelling of imburse
    • 1860, The Sporting Magazine, volume XXXVI, London: Rogerson & Tuxford, OCLC 1068056060, page 212:
      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; […]
    • 1890, Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, volume XIII, Newark, N.J.: Daily Journal Establishment, OCLC 57258122, page 103:
      […] purchase all of the said Tract [of land] that Samn Groome Emburse them the same or such prt thereof as they have not Received.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for emburse in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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