Middle English Dictionary Entry
embō̆cen v.
Entry Info
| Forms | embō̆cen v. Also embossen. |
| Etymology | OF embocer. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. boce.
1.
(a) To bulge or be bloated; (b) to cause to bulge; (c) as ppl.: hunchbacked.
Associated quotations
a
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.4664 : Polydamvs..was of gret þiknes, Of wombe swolle, enbosid with fatnes.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)5.2058 : Gorges agroteied, enboced ther entraille, Disposeth men rather to reste & slepe.
b
- c1475(a1449) Lydg.SPuer(1) (LdMisc 683)31 : Tenboce þi iowes with bred it is not dewe.
c
- c1450 Pilgr.LM (Cmb Ff.5.30)114 : The spaueynede, the blynde, the embosede, the maymede.
- c1450 Pilgr.LM (Cmb Ff.5.30)137 : Boystows she was and wrong shapen and enbosed [F bossue].
- c1450 Pilgr.LM (Cmb Ff.5.30)140 : I see thee..misshapen, crooked, and embosed, and mawgre nature engendred.
2.
To ornament in relief; to emboss.
Associated quotations
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.7528 : An Epithaphie anoon he dide graue..Wiþ lettris riche of gold aboute enbocid Rounde aboute..On his tombe.
- c1425(c1400) Ld.Troy (LdMisc 595)11203 : Many a pomel wel enbosed, Hit was wroght & wel engrosed With ffloures & leues wel en-leued.
- c1430(c1386) Chaucer LGW (Benson-Robinson)1200 : Of golde the barres up enbosede [vrr. enbosed, enbossed] hye.