▪ I. inburst, n. rare.
(ˈɪnbɜːst)
[f. in adv. + burst n.; cf. outburst.]
A bursting in, irruption.
| 1837 Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. vii. ix, Like the infinite inburst of water; or say rather, of inflammable, self-igniting fluid. 1858 Masson Milton I. 424 If there was no inburst of the essential Scottish spirit into English literature. 1872 G. Macdonald Wilf. Cumb. II. xx. 291, I could see nothing for some time for the mighty inburst of a lovely light. |
▪ II. inˈburst, v. rare.
[f. in adv. + burst v.]
intr. To burst in; to come in with suddenness and violence. So ˈinbursting vbl. n. and ppl. a.
| c 1540 Pilgr. T. 220 in Thynne's Animadv. (1865) App. i. 83 Ther workes lay in pryson fast, till the kyng of glory in⁓brast. a 1876 H. Bushnell in Butler's Bible Work (1883) II. 326 The inbursting of a cloudless day on all the righteous dead. 1882 Macm. Mag. XLVI. 125 Sorely pressed by the inbursting Goths in the province of Mœsia. |