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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
ensphere .
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Examples
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In one diorama alone an entire grassland ensphered: zebras, giraffe, wildebeest, stampeding across the plains.
Jay Kirk: Museum Of Natural History And Carl Akeley's Jounrey To Build Its African Wing Jay Kirk 2010
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They formed as it were a little world to themselves, being completely ensphered by the fog, which here was dense as a sea of milk.
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From the froth of poetry, they rose to a contemplation of the old classics; Homer, Euripides, Sophocles, Virgil, rising grandly from their dust, ensphered in vibratory eloquence.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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The purpose of God in us is character, and once we have it, established in divine grace and ensphered in the human will of a sufficient number of us, we shall soon make our new and better world.
Men in the Making Ambrose Shepherd
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She was ensphered from the world of creative effort in the establishment of her own perfection.
The Judge Rebecca West 1937
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I tried to build about me such a little globe of ease as always ensphered her, and thought of all that remained good in our lives though Chris was gone.
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Against a back ground of lemon-coloured sky, with the stars shedding their spiritual lustre through the purple twilight, these gorgeous creatures, each ensphered in her beatific bubble, floated tremulously upward on the balmy breeze.
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The girl for whom he was beginning to nourish an extraordinary tenderness was at this time ensphered by the same harmonies as those which floated into his ears; and the thought was a delight to him.
Jude the Obscure 1896
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The girl for whom he was beginning to nourish an extraordinary tenderness was at this time ensphered by the same harmonies as those which floated into his ears; and the thought was a delight to him.
Jude the Obscure 1894
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He had ensphered her in light; she was unassailable -- his fly in amber.
Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution Maurice Hewlett 1892
dontcry commented on the word ensphered
My brain has been ensphered by my skull.
July 15, 2008
yarb commented on the word ensphered
She was one of those beautiful women who are not only conscious of their beauty but have accepted it as their vocation. She was ensphered from the world of creative effort in the establishment of her own perfection. She was an end in herself as no human, save some old saint who has made a garden of his soul, had any right to be.
- Rebecca West, The Judge
July 17, 2009