v. Obs. Also 7 imbetter. [f. EN- + BETTER a.] trans. To make better.

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  α.  c. 1583.  Peckham, in Hakluyt, Voyages (1600), III. 181. Then … estates of such as now liue in want shall be embettered.

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1625.  K. Long, trans. Barclay’s Argenis (1636), Dedic. A 2. Varietie to please the minde, and Learning to embetter the Iudgement.

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1839.  Richardson; and in mod. Dicts.

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  β.  1607.  Daniel, Philotas, V. Chorus, Crueltie doth not imbetter men.

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1680.  Sir W. Waller, Divine Medit. (1839), 41. Those that are good are imbettered, even by the illness of those that are bad.

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