different between terms vs emmarble

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t??mz/
• (US) IPA^(key): /t?mz/

Noun

terms

1. plural of term

Verb

terms

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of term

Anagrams

• ERTMS

Swedish

Noun

terms

1. indefinite genitive singular of term

English

Etymology

em- +? marble

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m??(?)b?l/

Verb

emmarble (third-person singular simple present emmarbles, present participle emmarbling, simple past and past participle emmarbled)

1. (obsolete, poetic) Alternative form of enmarble
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, A Hymn in Honour of Love

     Thou dost emmarble the proud heart.

   • 1630, Robert Bolton, A Sermon preached at Lent Assises, Anno Domini, MDCXXX, in: Mr. Boltons Last and Learned Worke of the Foure last Things, Death, Iudgement, Hell, and Heaven. With his Assise-Sermons and Notes on Iustice Nicolls his Funerall, 4th edition, London, 1639, p. 220 [1]:

     But all the blowes and pressures were so farre from softning their hearts, that they hardened and emmarbled them more and more.

   • 1850, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "Crowned and Buried":

     pictured or emmarbled dreams

Further reading

• James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928) , “Emmarble”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume III (D–E), London: Clarendon Press, OCLC 15566697, page 123, column 3.
• emmarble in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• embalmer