Post by t-bob on Sept 8, 2019 10:09:16 GMT -5
verb (used with object)
1. to cherish; foster.
Quotes
The more thoroughly she is recognized in any University, and made to embosom the minds trained in it, interpenetrating with her Divine force all resources of Science, the more will she make that, in no common-place sense but truly, royally, the cherished mother of its students. -- "The True Success of Human Life," The New Englander, No. 41, February 1853 When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Spiritual Laws," Essays, 1841
Origin
The verb embosom “to cherish, foster,” is a compound formed from the prefix em- meaning “to make (someone or something) be in (a place or condition),” a borrowing from Old French, from Latin in-, and the noun bosom (the variant imbosom is formed directly from the Latin prefix in-). Bosom comes from Old English bósm and has certain relatives only within Germanic, e.g., Old Frisian bósm, Old Saxon bósom, Old High German buosam, German Busen. The verb is poetic and rare, first appearing in Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene (1590).
1. to cherish; foster.
Quotes
The more thoroughly she is recognized in any University, and made to embosom the minds trained in it, interpenetrating with her Divine force all resources of Science, the more will she make that, in no common-place sense but truly, royally, the cherished mother of its students. -- "The True Success of Human Life," The New Englander, No. 41, February 1853 When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Spiritual Laws," Essays, 1841
Origin
The verb embosom “to cherish, foster,” is a compound formed from the prefix em- meaning “to make (someone or something) be in (a place or condition),” a borrowing from Old French, from Latin in-, and the noun bosom (the variant imbosom is formed directly from the Latin prefix in-). Bosom comes from Old English bósm and has certain relatives only within Germanic, e.g., Old Frisian bósm, Old Saxon bósom, Old High German buosam, German Busen. The verb is poetic and rare, first appearing in Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene (1590).
