Immergo, immergis, immerfi, immersum, immérgere. Virgil. To diowne or plunge in water: to diepz.Vbi lster amnis immergitur. Plin. Falleth into the sea.Immergere se aliquò.Plaut.To enter priuily into a place.immersit se aliquò in ganeum.Plaut.Hee is gotte hymielfe into some tauerne or brothel house.Immergere se in voluptates.Liu.To giue himselfe to.Immergere se penitus in consuetudinem alicuius blanditijs.Cic.By slattering tales to enter into deepe familiaritie & acquaintance with one.Immersabilis. & hoc immersabile, pen. cor. Hora. That cannot be drowned.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
immergo (inm-), si, sum, 3 (perf. sync. immersti, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 26; acc. to the second conj., inf. pres. pass. immergeri, Col. 5, 9, 3), v. a. [in-mergo], to dip, plunge, sink, or stick into any thing, to immerse (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose). I.Lit.: manus in aquam ferventem, Plin. 28, 6, 15, 144: immersus in flumen, Cic. Univ. 13: in aqua cui subinde (ferrum) candens immergitur, Plin. 34, 14, 41, 144: nautas pelago, Ov. M. 4, 423: partem arboris deflexam terrae, Col. 5, 6, 30: aliquem spumosā undā, Verg. A. 6, 174: immergi melle cotone, Plin. 15, 17, 18, 60: manus, Ov. M. 13, 563: se in aquam, Plin. 11, 25, 30, 90: se alto (belua), Curt. 4, 4.— Mid.: ubi Hister amnis inmergitur, i. e.
pours itself into the sea
, Plin. 4, 11, 18, 41: at quidem tute errasti, quom parum inmersti ampliter (sc. manus),
did not dip deep enough
, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 26.—B.Transf., in gen.: se aliquo, to throw or plunge one's self into any thing, to betake one's self anywhere: immersit aliquo sese credo in ganeum, Plaut. Men. 5, 1, 3: se in contionem mediam, id. ib. 3, 1, 3: inter mucrones se hostium immersit, Just. 33, 2.—II.Trop.: se blanditiis et assentationibus in alicujus consuetudinem, Cic. Clu. 13, 36: se studiis, Sen. Cons. ad Polyb. 37: se penitus Pythagorae praeceptis, Val. Max. 4, 1, 1 fin.