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inherse

inherse is the obsolete 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 inherse

third-person singular presentinherses
present participleinhersing
past participleinhersed
pastinhersed

Questions about inherse

What is inherse the obsolete form of?
Inherse is the obsolete form of enhearse.

Words near inherse in the dictionary

  1. inheritrice
  2. inheritrices
  3. inheritrix
  4. inheritrixes
  5. inherits
  6. inherse
  7. inhersed
  8. inherses
  9. inhersing
  10. inhesion
  11. inhesions

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Adapted from Wiktionary: inherse (page history and authors); enhearse (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.

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