emboil
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]emboil (third-person singular simple present emboils, present participle emboiling, simple past and past participle emboiled)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To boil with anger; to effervesce.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- quench thy hot emboiling Wrath
- (obsolete, transitive) To cause to boil with anger; to irritate; to chafe.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Emboyled, grieued, brent.
References
[edit]- “emboil”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.