Obs. [ad. Fr. enseimer (now ensimer); OFr. ensaimer, f. en- (see EN-1) + OF. *saim, saïn: see ENSEAM v.1] trans. To load with grease. Hence Enseamed ppl. a. fig.
The Fr. word is now used only in sense ‘to grease (cloth),’ whence perh. the fig. use in Shaks.
1562. Leigh, Armorie (1597), 57. Hee is not enseamed with much fatnesse, but is all of muscles and senues.
1602. Shaks., Ham., III. iv. 92. In the ranke sweat of an enseamed bed.
