imbathe

English

Etymology

From im- +‎ bathe.

Verb

imbathe (third-person singular simple present imbathes, present participle imbathing, simple past and past participle imbathed)

1. 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.

References

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