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Immure   Listen
verb
Immure  v. t.  (past & past part. immured; pres. part. immuring)  
1.
To wall around; to surround with walls. (Obs.)
2.
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."


noun
Immure  n.  A wall; an inclosure. (Obs.)





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"Immure" Quotes from Famous Books



... breathless, haunting, wistful as it had ever been. The whole of the kingdom of his heart was hers alone, and, so far as he could see, like to remain hers only for the rest of his life. Since, therefore, he could not dispatch Memory, he sought to immure her. Since Valerie's sovereignty was so fast stablished that it could not be moved, he sought to rule his heart out of his system. Had it been possible, he would, like Aesop's Beaver, have ripped the member from him and gone heartless ever after. The Fabulous ...
— Anthony Lyveden • Dornford Yates
... my board and lodging at the end of the month. After six weeks' careful treatment Don Juan was perfectly cured, and could use his eye as well as he did previous to his accident. Nevertheless, to my great regret, the Captain still continued to immure himself; his re-appearance in society, which he had forsaken for more than a year, would have produced an immense sensation, and I should have been considered the first doctor in the Philippines. One day I ...
— Adventures in the Philippine Islands • Paul P. de La Gironiere
... joyance that we take there; it must be the interlude to toil and fight and painful deeds, and we must be ready to sally out in a moment when it is demanded of us. Now, if the winning of such a fortress of thought is hard, it is also dangerous when won, because it tempts us to immure ourselves in peace, and only observe from afar the plain of life, which lies all about the Castle, gazing down through the high windows; to shut out the wind and the rain, as well as the cries and prayers of those who have ...
— Joyous Gard • Arthur Christopher Benson


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