imburse

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive)To put into a purse; to save, to store up.

   “Pit 3, the tomb of Simoniacs, is perforated throughout bottom and sides with round holes, 'purses' in which these money-sinners are imbursed from sight, head downward and within the earth, while their feet writhe without, licked by the fire which torments offenders directly against God.”

2. (obsolete, transitive)To give money to, to pay; to stock or supply with money.

   “If the Company would enlarge this commerce, it must be done by investments in India according to their annual advices to the Factors there, and the Company will also do well strictly to enjoin the Factors to prohibit lading any of the kinds sent for the Company's account, such commodities will imburse ready moneys with which silk can be procured far more reasonably than of the King, and without the fraud his Ministers use by their unconscionable wetting and false weighing.”

   “He had shed his blood for the Queen Isabella Segunda and her exemplary mamma, Marie Christina, on the arid plains of Catalonia; and the ungrateful Isabella had neglected to imburse him his large arrears of pay-pension and allowances; […]”

   “[A] clause or rule should exist to admit the withdrawal (under such circumstances) of all or a certain part of the paid-in capital, none of which having in the mean time been imbursed for such member's benefit in sickness or other casualty.”

   “Our Club cannot prosper unless we emburse / The Treasurer's wallet,—nay, quite the reverse, / From bad we shall only be getting to worse, / For the bowstring is strung by unstringing the purse; […]”

   “The Adivasis are unable to bear the burden of their children's education on account of their unsatisfactory economic condition. In the light of these facts this department has been imbursing the fees of the Adivasi students […]”

3. (obsolete, transitive)To pay back money that is owed; to refund, to repay, to reimburse.

   “[T]hey prayed me to be their Surety for payment of their Ranſom-Money; and herein every one was very forward with his Pretences; one alledged Nobleneſs of Birth; another, that he had great Friends and Alliances; a Third, that he was a Commander in the Army, and had much Pay due to him; a Fourth, that he had Caſh enough at Home, and was able to imburſe me.”

   “Man can use fraud, which every conscience gnaws, / Against the man who doth in him confide; / And him who not to imburse his trust sees cause.”