1. trans. To light up, illuminate, cause to glow.
1634. Milton, Comus, 733. Th’ unsought Diamonds … emblaze the forehead of the Deep.
1718. Pope, Iliad, XIII. 433. Polish’d arms emblazed the flaming fields.
1746. Hervey, Medit. (1818), 186. Topaz, emblazed with a golden gleam.
1804. J. Grahame, Sabbath (1839), 18/1. Till … the sun Emblaze, with upward-slanting ray, the breast And wing unquivering of the wheeling lark.
1854. Bailey, Festus (ed. 5), 323. The golden pane the setting sun doth just Imblaze.
2. To set in a blaze, kindle. Also fig.
1728. Pope, Dunc., I. 235. Sulphur-tipt, emblaze an ale-house fire.
1747. Collins, Ode to Liberty, ii. in Odes, 30. When nearer Suns emblaze its Veins.
1815. Month. Mag., XXXVIII. 534. Fires, lightning kindled, the tall oaks imblaze.
