Immure
noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A wall; an enclosure. obsolete
"[…]Troy, within whose strong emures[…]"
- 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 lock up or confine, in or as in a jail wordnet
- 3 To put or bury within a wall. transitive
"John's body was immured Thursday in the mausoleum."
- 4 To wall in.
- 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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
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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