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Immure v. t. (past & past part. immured; pres. part. immuring)

To wall around; to surround with walls. (Obs.)

To inclose whithin walls, or as within walls; hence, to shut up; to imprison; to incarcerate. "Those tender babes Whom envy hath immured within your walls." "This huge convex of fire, Outrageous to devour, immures us round."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Immure" Quotes from Famous Books

... reproach of the scholastick race is the want of fortitude, not martial but philosophick. Men bred in shades and silence, taught to immure themselves at sunset, and accustomed to no other weapon than syllogism, may be allowed to feel terrour at personal danger, and to be disconcerted by tumult and alarm. But why should he whose life ...

— The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, In Nine Volumes - Volume the Third: The Rambler, Vol. II • Samuel Johnson

... every side, the Irish pig is, to my taste, a trifle too much in the foreground. He pays the rent, no doubt; but this magnificent achievement could be managed from a sty in the rear, ungrateful as it might seem to immure so useful a personage behind a door or conceal his virtues from ...

— Penelope's Irish Experiences • Kate Douglas Wiggin

Words linked to "Immure" : put behind bars, gaol, detain, jug, lag, confine, put away, incarcerate, remand