English edit

Etymology edit

em- +‎ beam

Verb edit

embeam (third-person singular simple present embeams, present participle embeaming, simple past and past participle embeamed)

  1. (transitive) To make brilliant with beams.
    • 1610, Giles Fletcher, Christ's Victorie and Triumph, in Heaven, in Earth, over and after Death:
      lively colours did embeam
      His sparkling forehead

References edit

embeam”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.