ensphere

Verb

ensphere (third-person singular simple present enspheres, present participle ensphering, simple past and past participle ensphered)

1. (transitive) To place in a sphere; to surround in all directions (as if) by a sphere (one of the concentric hollow transparent globes formerly believed to rotate around the Earth).
   • shee whose eies enspheard
     Star-light inough, t’haue made the South controll,
     (Had shee beene there) the Starfull Northern Pole,1612, John Donne, “The Second Anniuersarie. Of the Progres of the Soule”, in The First Anniuersarie. An Anatomie of the World, London: S. Macham, page 8
   • His ample shoulders in a cloud enspher’d
     Of fiery crimson.c. 1624, George Chapman (translator), “Hymn to Hermes” by Homer in The Hymns of Homer; The Batrachomyomachia; and Two Original Poetical Hymns, Chistnick: C. Whittingham, 1818, p. 64

   Synonyms:

   engulf, envelop

2. (transitive) To form into a sphere.
   • Virgins of equall birth, of equall years,
     Whose vertues held with thine an emulous strife,
     Shall draw thy picture, and record thy life;
     One shall ensphere thine eyes, another shall
     Impearl thy teeth; a third thy white and small
     Hand shall besnow, a fourth, incarnadine
     Thy rosie cheek,1651, Thomas Carew, “Obsequies to the Lady Anne Hay”, in Poems, with a Maske, London: H.M, page 91
   • Bright stars, around the fair Selênê peering,
     No more their beauty to the night discover
     When she, at full, her silver light ensphering,
     Floods the world over.1938, T. F. Higham (translator), Song 142 (“The Moon”) by Sappho, in The Oxford Book of Greek Verse in Translation, Oxford University Press, p. 140