immure

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  1. transitive verb To confine within or as if within walls; imprison.
  2. transitive verb To build into a wall: immure a shrine.
  3. transitive verb To entomb in a wall.

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  • If ever the mountains the fjord would immure, Their narrows press nigher, a prison sure His water-hands then with a gesture haughty Seize the whole saucy pass like a shell; Set to his mouth, he begins to blow it With western-gale-lungs,--and then you may know it, Loud is the noise, and the swift currents swell Forcing the coast, a big fjord, black and gray, Breaks us our way; Waterfalls rushing on both sides rumble. —  Poems and Songs
  • And then immure me in a gloomy place, —  Tales
  • As well as citadel, whose walls immure —  Orlando Furioso
  • But such feelings as those which my ribs immure * —  Arabian nights. English
  • No more the remote sea-walls immure. —  In Divers Tones
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Medieval Latin immūrāre : Latin in-, in; see in-2 + Latin mūrus, wall.

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  1. Formerly also enmure; from Old French emmurrer = Provencal enmurar, emurar, from Middle Latin immurare, shut within walls, from Latin in, in, + murus, a wall: see mural, mure.
  2. from immure, v.
 

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