Hypertext Webster Gateway: "immersing"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Immerse \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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