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Immure

//ɪˈmjʊə(ɹ)// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A wall; an enclosure. obsolete

    "[…]Troy, within whose strong emures[…]"

Verb
  1. 1
    To cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls. transitive

    "The gentlemen looked at each other for a ſolution of this ſtrange event, each preſuming an order had been obtained to again immure the unfortunate Clara."

  2. 2
    lock up or confine, in or as in a jail wordnet
  3. 3
    To put or bury within a wall. transitive

    "John's body was immured Thursday in the mausoleum."

  4. 4
    To wall in.
  5. 5
    To trap or capture (an impurity); chiefly in the participial adjective immured and gerund or gerundial noun immuring. transitive

    "1975, American Institute of Physics, American Crystallographic Association, Soviet Physics, Crystallography, Volume 19, Issues 1-3, page 296, On increasing the supercooling, the step starts completely immuring the impurity and v rises sharply."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English enmuren and Middle French emmurer, both from Old French enmurer, from Latin immūrō, from in- + mūrus (“wall”). Modern spelling is modelled after the Latin.

Etymology 2

From Middle English enmuren and Middle French emmurer, both from Old French enmurer, from Latin immūrō, from in- + mūrus (“wall”). Modern spelling is modelled after the Latin.

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