imburse

Verb

imburse (third-person singular simple present imburses, present participle imbursing, simple past and past participle imbursed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To put into a purse; to save, to store up.
   • [T]he then existing Signors and the colleagues, feeling themselves possessed of sufficient power, assumed the authority to fix upon the Signors that would have to sit during the next forty months, by putting their names into a bag or purse, and drawing them every two months. But, before the...1847, Niccolo Machiavelli, chapter V, in The History of Florence, and of the Affairs of Italy, […] A New Translation (Bohn’s Standard Library), London: Henry G[eorge] Bohn, […], →OCLC, book I, page 81
   • Pit 3, the tomb of Simoniacs, is perforated throughout bottom and sides with round holes, 'purses' in which these money-sinners are imbursed from sight, head downward and within the earth, while their feet writhe without, licked by the fire which torments offenders directly against God.1871, Maria Francesca Rossetti, “The Hell”, in A Shadow of Dante: Being an Essay towards Studying Himself, His World and His Pilgrimage, London; Oxford; Cambridge: Rivingtons, →OCLC, page 56
2. (obsolete, transitive) To give money to, to pay; to stock or supply with money.
   • If the Company would enlarge this commerce, it must be done by investments in India according to their annual advices to the Factors there, and the Company will also do well strictly to enjoin the Factors to prohibit lading any of the kinds sent for the Company's account, such commodities will...1630 October 6, William Burt, “(Agent William Burt) to (the East India Company)”, in W. Noel Sainsbury, editor, Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series, East Indies and Persia, 1630–1634, Preserved...
   • He had shed his blood for the Queen Isabella Segunda and her exemplary mamma, Marie Christina, on the arid plains of Catalonia; and the ungrateful Isabella had neglected to imburse him his large arrears of pay-pension and allowances; […]1856 April 5, [George Augustus Sala], “The Dalgetty Race”, in Charles Dickens, editor, Household Words. A Weekly Journal, volume XIII, number 315, London: Office, 16, Wellington Street North, Strand...
3. (obsolete, transitive) To pay back money that is owed; to refund, to repay, to reimburse.
   • [T]hey prayed me to be their Surety for payment of their Ranſom-Money; and herein every one was very forward with his Pretences; one alledged Nobleneſs of Birth; another, that he had great Friends and Alliances; a Third, that he was a Commander in the Army, and had much Pay due to him; a Fourth...1744, A[ugerius] G[islenius] Busbequius [i.e., Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq], Travels into Turkey: Containing the Most Accurate Account of the Turks, and Neighbouring Nations, […], London: Printed for...
   • Man can use fraud, which every conscience gnaws, / Against the man who doth in him confide; / And him who not to imburse his trust sees cause.1877, Dante [Alighieri], “Canto XI”, in Charles Tomlinson, transl., A Vision of Hell: The Inferno of Dante Translated into English Tierce Rhyme; […], London: S. W. Partridge and Co. […], →OCLC, page...