embayとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

embay (三人称単数 現在形 embays, 現在分詞 embaying, 過去形および過去分詞形 embayed)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To bathe; to steep.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book III, canto XI, page 560:

     Sweete Loue, that doth his golding wings embay / In bleſſed Nectar, and pure Pleaſures well […].

   • 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Twelfth Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, OCLC 940138160, stanza 62, page 225:

     Their ſwords both points and edges ſharpe embay / In purple bloud, where ſo they hit or light […]

語源 2

From em- +‎ bay.

別の表記

• imbay

動詞

embay (三人称単数 現在形 embays, 現在分詞 embaying, 過去形および過去分詞形 embayed)

1. (transitive) To shut in, enclose, shelter or trap, such as ships in a bay.
   • 1876, Herman Melville, “Canto XVII”, in Walter E. Bezanson, editor, Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land […], New York, N.Y.: Hendricks House, published 1960, OCLC 258028907, part I (Jerusalem), lines 176–183, page 56:

     Hebrew the profile, every line; / But as in haven fringed with palm, / Which Indian reefs embay from harm, / Belulled as in the vase the wine— / Red budded corals in remove, / Peep coy through quietudes above; […]

   • 1912, Thomas Hardy, “An Imaginative Woman”, in Life’s Little Ironies […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, OCLC 10398752, page 7:

     Herself the only daughter of a struggling man of letters, she had during the last year or two taken to writing poems, in an endeavour to find a congenial channel in which to let flow her painfully embayed emotions, whose former limpidity and sparkle seemed departing in the stagnation caused by the routine of a practical household and the gloom of bearing children to a commonplace father.