Ensphere

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To place in a sphere; to surround in all directions (as if) by a sphere (one of the concentric hollow transparent globes formerly believed to rotate around the Earth). transitive

    "shee whose eies enspheard Star-light inough, t’haue made the South controll, (Had shee beene there) the Starfull Northern Pole,"

  2. 2
    To form into a sphere. transitive

    "Virgins of equall birth, of equall years, Whose vertues held with thine an emulous strife, Shall draw thy picture, and record thy life; One shall ensphere thine eyes, another shall Impearl thy teeth; a third thy white and small Hand shall besnow, a fourth, incarnadine Thy rosie cheek,"

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"shee whose eies enspheard Star-light inough, t’haue made the South controll, (Had shee beene there) the Starfull Northern Pole,"

Etymology

From en- + sphere.

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