Definitions
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- v. To enclose in, or as if in, a frame.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- transitive v. To inclose, as in a frame.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To inclose in or as in a frame.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The neighborhood flowers from within the rituals that enframe the drinking of a macchiato in a café.
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Less a bizarre lacuna and more an actual way that words work – they enframe the world in different ways, or to use another metaphor, they light the world in differing ways that evoke different dispositions toward the world.
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The Cupid, irretrievably damaged, has been altogether removed, but the landscape remains, and it certainly shows a strong family resemblance to those which enframe the figures in the Three Ages, Sacred and Profane Love, and the “Noli me tangere” of the National Gallery.
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Then all himself, and with hardly a rival in art, he went on to unfold those radiantly beautiful prospects of earth and sky which enframe the figures in the
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Some day, perhaps, the exact significance of this emblem may be explained, we are content to point out the variety and happy arrangement of the sinuous lines which surround and enframe the richly decorated pilaster that acts as its stem.
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When the sculptor set himself to carve the slabs that enframe a door or those that protect the lower parts of a wall, he sought to render what he saw or imagined as precisely and definitely as possible.
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The addition of rooms above converts a roof into the floor of the new room, so that there can be no distinction in method of construction between floors and roofs, except the floors are occasionally covered with a complete paving of thin stone slabs, a device that in external roofs is confined to the copings that cap the walls and enframe openings.
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The paving stones are usually finished quite neatly and smoothly where their edges enframe the firepit.
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Since I “enframe” a text in this way, I’m sure many other readers do too.
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a little dark and lone, as though listening to the voice and the dreary illusion of the church which they enframe ....
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