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Disembogue v. t. (past & past part. disembogued; pres. part. disemboguing)

To pour out or discharge at the mouth, as a stream; to vent; to discharge into an ocean, a lake, etc. "Rolling down, the steep Timavus raves, And through nine channels disembogues his waves."

To eject; to cast forth. (R.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... hills fall prostrate, and ye vales arise! Through faction's wilderness prepare the way! Prepare, ye listening senates, to obey! The idol of the mob, behold him stand, The Alpha and Omega of the land! Methinks I hear the bellowing demagogue 400 Dumb-sounding declamations disembogue, Expressions of immeasurable length, Where pompous jargon fills the place of strength; Where fulminating, rumbling eloquence, With loud theatric rage, bombards the sense; And words, deep rank'd in horrible array, Exasperated metaphors convey! With these ...

— The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer - With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes • Rev. George Gilfillan [Ed.]

... attempt to trace to their source the causes which have combined to render this nation the most polished, in a physical sense, and probably the most superficial in the world; and I mean to follow the windings of the various streams that disembogue into a terrific gulf, in which all the dignity of our nature is absorbed. For every thing has conspired to make the French the most sensual people in the world; and what can render the heart so hard, or so effectually ...

— Posthumous Works - of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman • Mary Wollstonecraft