Both Uses of
embedded
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Gringoire, still followed by his three persecutors, and not knowing very well what was to become of him, marched along in terror among them, turning out for the lame, stepping over the cripples in bowls, with his feet imbedded in that ant-hill of lame men, like the English captain who got caught in the quicksand of a swarm of crabs.†
Chpt 1.2.6 *imbedded = firmly within; or placed firmly within
- There is Notre-Dame de Paris, a pointed-arch edifice, which is imbedded by its pillars in that Roman zone, in which are plunged the portal of Saint-Denis, and the nave of Saint-Germain des Prés.†
Chpt 1.3.1
Definition:
firmly within; or placed within
in various senses, including:
- firmly stuck into -- as a thorn into a finger
- enclosed within -- as a fossil within a rock
- implanted as a part -- sometimes specifically of a reporter
- integrated in hardware -- as of a computer chip
- firmly set within -- as of a character trait