2. Adjective. (obsolete) Stained with blood; wounded, bloody. ¹
3. Adjective. (heraldry) Stained with blood. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Imbrued
1. imbrue [v] - See also: imbrue
Lexicographical Neighbors of Imbrued
Literary usage of Imbrued
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fragments, in Prose and Verse by Elizabeth Smith, Henrietta Maria Bowdler (1810)
"Or when the moon imbrued in blood did seem, " To watch her rising from the distant
hill, " Her soft light trembling on the azure stream, " Which gently ..."
2. The Reformed Mennonite Church: Its Rise and Progress, with Its Principles by Daniel Musser (1873)
"... exemplary characters that acted in this drama, imbrued their hands in the
blood of their fellow creatures, for no other reason, crime or fault ..."
3. Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the by James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1887)
"... well as of other principles, has imbrued his hands in the blood of his King
while he was sleeping under his roof. If, Sir, he has really been that ..."
4. Cardiff Castle: A Poem, with Explanatory Remarks and Historical Extracts by Taliesin Williams (1827)
"... in dread career, With blood-imbrued resistless spear : In contact stern the
shaft was shiver'd, In many a breast the arrow quiver'd; The battle axe's ..."
5. Historical Pictures of the Middle Ages, in Black and White: Made on the Spot by Alicia Moore, Wandering artist (1854)
"... whose hands had been so often imbrued in blood, and whose soul had been so
often jeopardized by his desire to aggrandize this sole object, ..."
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