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verb

Immerse v. t. (past & past part. immersed; pres. part. immersing)

To plunge into anything that surrounds or covers, especially into a fluid; to dip; to sink; to bury; to immerge. "Deep immersed beneath its whirling wave." "More than a mile immersed within the wood."

To baptize by immersion.

To engage deeply; to engross the attention of; to involve; to overhelm. "The queen immersed in such a trance." "It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed inn the enjoyments of this."

adjective

Immerse adj. Immersed; buried; hid; sunk. (Obs.) "Things immerse in matter."

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Etymology of 'Immerse'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Immerse" Quotes from Famous Books

... and come much nearer we must immerse to the eyes," whispered Willet. "Then they would have to be almost upon us before they saw us. It will make it much harder for us to get at our weapons, but we must ...

— The Lords of the Wild - A Story of the Old New York Border • Joseph A. Altsheler

... was the answer. "Such a course would also have the additional advantage of enabling us to immerse the hull to the proper depth as we go along, thus giving us that hold upon the water necessary to cope successfully with the weight of a large ship like the one of which we are going in search. We might, whilst floating in the air, be able to tow her out of danger, but I am a little doubtful ...

— The Log of the Flying Fish - A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure • Harry Collingwood

... were, of course, saturated with water, but I had not much uneasiness about that. In a prairie camp, and upon the banks of a deep stream, an Indian with wet leggings could not be a spectacle to excite suspicion; there would be many reasons why my counterpart might choose to immerse his copper-coloured extremities in the river. Moreover, the buckskin— dressed Indian-fashion—was speedily casting the water; it would soon drip dry; or even if wet, would scarcely be ...

— The War Trail - The Hunt of the Wild Horse • Mayne Reid

... "baptize" does not necessarily mean to immerse, as the Baptists claim. When the Saviour instituted this sacrament, He did not coin a new word, but employed one already in use. The original Greek word from which our English word "baptize" is derived, is used in the New Testament in the sense of washing [Mark 7:4] and sprinkling. [I Cor. 10:2] ...

— An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism • Joseph Stump

... researches of M. Cremieux have given affirmative results: if we immerse in a large mass of some liquid several drops of another not miscible with the first, but of identical density, we form a mass representing no doubt a discontinuity in the ether, and we may ask ourselves ...

— The New Physics and Its Evolution • Lucien Poincare

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