implunge

English

Alternative forms

emplunge

Etymology

From im- +‎ plunge.

Verb

implunge (third-person singular simple present implunges, present participle implunging, simple past and past participle implunged)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To plunge (something into something else).
   • c. 1614, Daniel Dyke, Two Treatises:

     […] implunging our ſelues into the gulfe of our ſinne

   • 1639, Thomas Fuller, “The Pilgrimes Arrivall at Constantinople, Entertainment, and Departure”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John Williams, London], →OCLC, book I, pages 22–23:

     [H]e […] by his overcarefulneſſe and cauſeleſſe ſuſpicion, deprived himſelf of this benefit, and implunged himſelf in much juſt hatred for his unjuſt dealing and treachery.

References

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