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Revision as of 00:05, 25 May 2017
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French emmurer, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin immurare, from im, combining variant of in (“in”), + mūrus (“wall”).
Pronunciation
- (deprecated use of
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Verb
immure (third-person singular simple present immures, present participle immuring, simple past and past participle immured)
- (transitive) To cloister, confine, imprison: to lock up behind walls.
- 1799, Mary Meeke, Elleſmere: A Novel, Volume IV, William Lane (publisher), pages 219–220:
- 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.
- 1880, Rosina Bulwer Lytton, A Blighted Life, Preface,
- In a happy moment for the Levy-Lawson-Levis, Lady Lytton was betrayed, seized, and immured. The Editor saw his chance, and made the Metropolis ring with the outrage. Levi was saved; so also was Lady Lytton.
- 1914, Emily Dickinson, Immured in Heaven!, in The Single Hound, republished 1924, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (introduction), The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson,
- Immured in Heaven! / What a Cell! / Let every Bondage be, / Thou sweetest of the Universe, / Like that which ravished thee!
- 1933 December, Albert H. Cotton, “A Note on the Civil Remedies of Injured Consumers”, in David F. Cavers (editor), Duke University School of Law, Law and Contemporary Problems, Volume I Number I, Duke University Press (1934), page 71:
- This rule is followed in all common-law jurisdictions, although it was not adopted by the House of Lords until 1932, and then only with vigorous dissent, in a case where a mouse was immured in a ginger-beer bottle.
- 1799, Mary Meeke, Elleſmere: A Novel, Volume IV, William Lane (publisher), pages 219–220:
- (transitive) To put or bury within a wall.
- John's body was immured Thursday in the mausoleum.
- 1906, Robert Chambers, The Book of Days, Volume 1, page 807,
- The dreadful punishment of immuring persons, or burying them alive in the walls of convents, was undoubtedly sometimes resorted to by monastic communities.
- (transitive, crystallography and geology, of a growing crystal) To trap or capture (an impurity); chiefly in the participial adjective immured and gerund or gerundial noun immuring.
- 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 rises sharply.
- 1975, American Institute of Physics, American Crystallographic Association, Soviet Physics, Crystallography, Volume 19, Issues 1-3, page 296,
Synonyms
- (imprison): cloister, confine, imprison, incarcerate
- (bury): inter
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
to lock up behind walls
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to put or bury within a wall
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Noun
immure (plural immures)
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