immerge
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Of the probable and the marvellous, two parts of a vulgar epick poem, which immerge the critick in deep consideration, the Paradise Lost requires little to be said.
From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Samuel Johnson
I say farther; that much lesse shall the said Cone stay afloat, if one immerge a part thereof.
From Discourse on Floating Bodies by Galileo Galilei
Which you may see, comparing with the water as well the part that shall immerge as the other above water.
From Discourse on Floating Bodies by Galileo Galilei
We entangle ourselves in business, immerge ourselves in luxury, and rove through the labyrinths of inconstancy till the darkness of old age begins to invade us, and disease and anxiety obstruct our way.
From McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey
Thus, by a kind of sacred procedure, I immerge myself into those old stones and recreate my peculiar Roman mood.
From Alone by Norman Douglas
The victim, now completely immerged in melancholy, progressed slowly onwards to Pettycur.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Alexander Leighton
The patient is then thrice immerged in the sacred pool; after the immersion he is bound hand and foot, and left for the night in a chapel which stands near.
From Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles by Daniel Hack Tuke
Happily, James did not observe his agitation, having relapsed, after his question, into the gloomy despondency in which he had for several days been immerged.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 by Various
An old term for a long pole used by the barge-men on our east coast; it is capped to prevent the immerged end from sticking in the mud.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
A.--The condenser K is immerged in a cistern of cold water.
From A Catechism of the Steam Engine by John Bourne, C.E.
But he was now immerging into political controversy; for the year 1710 produced the Examiner, of which Swift wrote thirty-three papers.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II by Samuel Johnson
On immerging into the wood, for such it was, extending the whole downward way to Tintern, we all suddenly found ourselves deprived of sight; obscurity aggravated almost into pitchy darkness!
From Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey by Joseph Cottle
