Word.ws English Dictionary

ensepulchring

ensepulchring is the present participle and gerund of ensepulchre.

Meaning of ensepulchre

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

Questions about ensepulchring

What is ensepulchring the present participle and gerund of?
Ensepulchring is the present participle and gerund of ensepulchre.

Words near ensepulchring in the dictionary

  1. ensepulchering
  2. ensepulchers
  3. ensepulchre
  4. ensepulchred
  5. ensepulchres
  6. ensepulchring
  7. Enser
  8. enserf
  9. enserfed
  10. enserfing
  11. enserfment

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ensepulchring (page history and authors); ensepulchre (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “ensepulchring.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ensepulchring. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.