emboil

verb — 2 senses

emboil

verb

Etymology From em- + boil.

1

Obsolete To boil with anger; to effervesce.

  • quench thy hot emboiling Wrath1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
2

Obsolete To cause to boil with anger; to irritate; to chafe.

  • Emboyled, grieued, brent.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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