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See amba ador. This Luys hath written 3. large bookes in Spanish collected out of Don Juan de Baltasar, an Ethiopian of great accompt, who had beene Emba ador from his Master Alexander. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 666. emba adorial (em-bas-a-dō'ri-al), a. See am IMG:content-0357.png:[blocks in formation] With fear the modest matron lifts her eyes, And to the bright emba adre replies. embattlement of ἐμβατήριος, of or for marching in, Gave her to his daughters to embathe In nectar'd lavers, strew'd with asphodel. Milton , Comus, 1. 837. embattlel (em-bat'l), v.; pret. and pp. embat tled, ppr. embattling. [Early mod. E. also em battail, embatteil; Whan that he was embatailed , He goth and hath the felde a ailed. Gower, Conf. Amant., I. 221. It was not long Ere on the plaine fast pricking Guyon spide One in bright armes embatteiled full strong. Spenser, F. Q., II. v. 2. The English are embattled , you French peers. Shak ., Hen. V., iv. 2. Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. Emerson, Concord Hymn. II.t in trans. To form in order of battle. We shall embattle By the second hour i' the morn. Shak., A. and C., iv. 9. The Regent followed him [the French king], but could not overtake him till he came near to Senlis: There both the Armies encamped and embattelled , yet only some light Skirmishes pa ed between them. Baker , Chronicles, p. 183. embattle2 (em-bat'l), v. t.; pret. and pp. em battled, ppr. embe embattling. [(Early mod. E. also embattail; IMG:content-0358.png:[blocks in formation] There he [Elder Brewster] served Mr. Davis on, a godly gentleman, and secretary of state to Queen Elizabeth, and attended him on his emba age into Holland. N. Morton, New England's Memorial, p. 221. 2t. The commi ion or charge of a me enger; a me age. And ever and anone, when none was ware, With speaking lookes, that close emba age bore, He rov'd at her. Spenser, F. Q., III. ix. 28. Doth not thy emba age belong to me; And am I last to know it? Shak., Rich. II., iii. 4. IMG:content-0359.png:[blocks in formation] emba adet, amba adet (em'-, am'ba-sād), n. [Early mod. E. also amba ad, (and see embasiate, am ba i ate ), E. amba y, emba y, which are re emba y, which lated to amba ade, amba ade, emba ade, as army2 to armada: see amba y, amba y, emba y), emba y), OF. amba e), a mi ion, emba y, charge, office, ME. am boht ), fem., = Goth. and bahts, m., a servant; a word common in later Teut. only in the deriv. IMG:content-0360.png:[blocks in formation] Emba y after emba y was sent to Rome by the Cart hag in i an government. Arnold, Hist. Rome, xiii. In 1155, the first year of Henry II., there was an emba y from the kings of Norway. Stubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 124. 4. The official residence of an amba ador; the amba adorial building or buildings. embastardizet (em-bas'tär-dīz), v . t . [ em -1 + bastardize .] To bastardize. Also written imbastardize . The rest, imbastardized from the ancient noblene of their ancestors, are ready to fall flat. Milton , Eikon ok las tes, Pref. embaterion (em-ba-tē'ri-on), n.; pl. embateria (-a). [ εμβατήριον (sc. μέλος , song), the air to which soldiers marched, a march (the anapestic songs of Tyrtæus were so called), neut. I saugh a gardeyn. Enclosed was, and walled welle, With high walles enb a tailed . Rom. of the Rose , 1. 136. I enbatell a wall, I make bastylmentes upon it to loke out at. Palsgrave . Ancient towers, And roofs embattled high, Fall prone. Cowper, Task, ii. 122. Spurr'd at heart with fleriest energy To embattail and to wall about thy cause With iron-worded proof. Tennyson, Sonnet to J. M. Κ.