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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
imbar .
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Examples
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In the age after the flood, the first great judgment of God upon the ambition of man was the confusion of tongues; whereby the open trade and intercourse of learning and knowledge was chiefly imbarred.
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The second, vvhy our Merchantes with their goodes were imbarred or arrested.
Summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian voyage Walter Bigges
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In the age after the flood, the first great judgment of God upon the ambition of man was the confusion of tongues; whereby the open trade and intercourse of learning and knowledge was chiefly imbarred.
The Advancement of Learning Francis Bacon 1593
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Three sides are sure imbarred with crags and hills,
Jerusalem Delivered Torquato Tasso 1569
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(by their agreement) stolen out of the harbor, where she was long imbarred, they hired this Dutchman to bring them thither, where they had appointed this ship to come, (not daring to go into England, or Spain, &c.)
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