1530. Calisto & Mel., in Hazl., Dodsley, I. 60. Their embalming and their unshamefacedness.
1626. Bacon, Sylva, § 771. The Embalming, (which no doubt was of the best).
1647. H. More, Poems, Ded. The embalming of his name to Immortality.
1685. J. Cooke, Marrow of Chirurgery (ed. 4), VI. iii. ii. 252. For Embalming, having all things in readiness, [etc.].
1744. The Travels of the late Charles Thompson, III. 287. It seems natural, before I leave this Subject, to say something of the Egyptian manner of embalming human Bodies.
1867. Trollope, Chron. Barset, I. xliii. 381. The embalming of her dear remains.
1883. G. H. Boughton, in Harper’s Mag., March, 539/2. Oh, that embalming smell!
