imbrued
adjEtymology From imbrue + -ed.
1
Obsolete Stained with blood; wounded, bloody.
- Whereas she found the Goddesse with her crew, / After late chace of their embrewed game, / Sitting beside a fountaine in a rew [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- He had a sense of his mind, which had been made up, falling to pieces again; but that sense in turn lost itself in a shudder which was already familiar—the horror of the public reappearance, on his part, of the imbrued hands of his mother.1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima, London: Macmillan and Co.:
2
Government, Heraldry, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Monarchy, Nobility, Politics Stained with blood.
- He bears for Arms : Argent, on a chief vert, two spear-heads erect of the field, the points imbrued gules.1895, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families: A Complete Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, and a Directory of Some Gentlemen of Coat-armour, and Being the First Attempt to Show which Arms in Use at the Moment are Borne by Legal Authority, page 133:
- Synonyms
- ablood, bloodstained, sanguinolent, hurt, injured, wounded
- Derived terms
- unimbrued