emmarble

[ ih-mahr-buhl ]

verb (used with object)

, em·mar·bled, em·mar·bling.

1. to represent in or adorn with marble; make like marble.

Word History and Origins

Origin of emmarble¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; em- ¹ + marble

Example Sentences

Emmarble, em-m�r′bl, v.t. to turn to marble, to petrify.

From Project Gutenberg

The whylst thou, tyrant Love, doest laugh and scorne At their complaints, making their paine thy play; 135 Whylest they lye languishing like thrals forlorne, The whyles thou doest triumph in their decay; And otherwhyles, their dying to delay, Thou doest emmarble the proud hart of her Whose love before their life they doe prefer.

From Project Gutenberg