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ensepulchre

ensepulchre verb: to confine in, or as if in, a sepulchre.

Verb

ensepulchre (third-person singular simple present ensepulchres, present participle ensepulchring, simple past and past participle ensepulchred)

  1. (transitive) To confine in, or as if in, a sepulchre.
    • Look to it – is it likely that the corpse ensepulchred will take with lovingkindness these offerings from her, by whom he died dishonoured, like one loathed, and was marred by her mishewing?1895, E. D. A. Morshead, The Ajax and Electra of Sophocles, page 92

Forms of ensepulchre

third-person singular presentensepulchres
present participleensepulchring
past participleensepulchred
pastensepulchred

Origin of ensepulchre

From en- + sepulchre.

Questions about ensepulchre

What does ensepulchre mean?
Ensepulchre means to confine in, or as if in, a sepulchre.
What part of speech is ensepulchre?
Ensepulchre is a verb.
What is the past tense of ensepulchre?
The past tense of ensepulchre is ensepulchred.

Words near ensepulchre in the dictionary

  1. Ensenadan
  2. ensepulcher
  3. ensepulchered
  4. ensepulchering
  5. ensepulchers
  6. ensepulchre
  7. ensepulchred
  8. ensepulchres
  9. ensepulchring
  10. Enser
  11. enserf

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