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inhearse

inhearse is the alternative form of enhearse.

Meaning of enhearse

Verb

enhearse (third-person singular simple present enhearses, present participle enhearsing, simple past and past participle enhearsed)

  1. (transitive) To place into, or as if into, a hearse or coffin.
    • Doubtless he would have made a noble knight;
      See, where he lies inhearsed in the arms
      Of the most bloody nurser of his harms!1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Forms of inhearse

third-person singular presentinhearses
present participleinhearsing
past participleinhearsed
pastinhearsed

Questions about inhearse

What is inhearse the alternative form of?
Inhearse is the alternative form of enhearse.

Words near inhearse in the dictionary

  1. inhaunt
  2. inhaust
  3. inhausted
  4. inhausting
  5. inhausts
  6. inhearse
  7. inhearsed
  8. inhearses
  9. inhearsing
  10. inheart
  11. inhearted

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