enwomb
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -uːm
Verb
enwomb (third-person singular simple present enwombs, present participle enwombing, simple past and past participle enwombed)
- (poetic, archaic) To place or cause to be contained in the womb; to make pregnant; to conceive.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.6:
- For not as other wemens commune brood / They were enwombed in the sacred throne / Of her chaste bodie [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.6:
- (poetic or archaic) To enclose.
References
- Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, Vol. III, Page 1959, enwomb