What does emburse mean?

emburse

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"Our Club cannot prosper unless we emburse / The Treasurer's wallet,—nay, quite the reverse, / From bad we shall only be getting to worse, / For the bowstring is strung by unstringing the purse; […]"
"[…] purchase all of the said Tract [of land] that Samⁿ Groome Emburse them the same or such pʳt thereof as they have not Received."

emburses (present, singular) embursing (participle, present) embursed (participle, past) embursed (past)

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