Im*merse" (?), a. [L. immersus, p. p. of immergere. See Immerge.]
Immersed; buried; hid; sunk.
[Obs.] "Things
immerse in matter."
Bacon.
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Im*merse", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Immersed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Immersing.]
1.
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.
J Warton.
More than a mile immersed within the wood.
Dryden.
2.
To baptize by immersion.
3.
To engage deeply; to engross the attention of; to involve; to overhelm.
The queen immersed in such a trance.
Tennyson.
It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed inn the enjoyments of this.
Atterbury.
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