v. Also 6 entoumbe, 6–8 intomb(e, (6 intumb). [a. OF. entoumbe-r, entumbe-r, Fr. entombe-r, f. en in (see EN-) + tombe TOMB.]
1. trans. To place in a tomb; to bury, inter.
α. 1578. Hunnis, Hyve full Hunnye, 130 b. Entoumbe thou mee in Canaan.
1634. Sir T. Herbert, Trav., 133. Therein is richly entombed Fatima, daughter and heire of their greatest Prophet Mahomet.
1756–7. trans. Keysler’s Trav. (1760), I. 202. Here is entombed the heart of an unconquered hero.
1842. Prichard, Nat. Hist. Man, 189. The remains of the dead found entombed in various parts of Europe.
β. 1576. Fleming, Panoplie Ep., 115. The exhibiting of deserved honor unto him after he was intumbed.
1611. Speed, Theat. Gt. Brit., vi. (1614), 11/1. K. Henry VI. … was intombed at Windsor.
1775. Adair, Amer. Ind., 187. He [the dead husband] is intombed in the house under her bed.
2. transf. and fig. To enclose as in a tomb; to overwhelm; to bury. Also absol.
1593. Shaks., Lucr., 679. Intombes her outcrie in her lips sweet fold.
1593. Nashe, Christ’s T., 5 b. Thou art … entombed in Ashes like Gomorra. Ibid. (1599), Lenten Stuffe (1871). They intomb and balist with sudden destruction.
1665. J. Mall, Offer of F. Help, 118. Seas of wrath are … threatning to entomb you.
1742. Young, Nt. Th., IX. 2429. When Time … In Nature’s ample ruins lies intomb’d.
1830. Lyell, Princ. Geol. (1875), II. III. xlv. 526. During the great Earthquake of 1693 in Sicily, several thousand people were at once entombed in the ruins of caverns in limestone.
1874. Morley, Compromise (1886), 37. The spirit of the Church is eternally entombed within the four corners of acts of parliament.
3. To serve as a tomb for; to receive as in a tomb. lit. and fig.
a. 1631. Donne, Lett. (1651), 113. To seem to entomb those affections of mine to your service.
1633. G. Herbert, Temple, Ch. Porch, viii. Let not a common ruine thee intombe.
1638. Cowley, Love’s Riddle, V. Wks. (1684), 117. Some steepy mountain bury me alive, Or Rock intomb me in its stony entrails!
1812. H. & J. Smith, Rej. Addr., Hampsh. Farmer. None of your Ægyptian pyramids, to entomb subscribers’ capitals.
1821. Shelley, Hellas, 8. If Hell should entomb thee.
