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inisle

inisle is the obsolete form of enisle.

Meaning of enisle

Verb

enisle (third-person singular simple present enisles, present participle enisling, simple past and past participle enisled)

  1. (transitive) To make into an island.
    • […] long before England itself was enisled by the sea.1930, Walter De la Mare, Desert Islands and Robinson Crusoe, New York: Farrar & Rinehart, page 118
  2. (broadly, figuratively, transitive) To isolate.
    • […] no reply / Comes from the vast, enisling sphere / Of spirit, limitless, divine, / So far from me, so strangely mine.1876, Edmond Holmes, “After Death”, in Poems, London: Henry S. King & Co., page 82

Forms of inisle

third-person singular presentinisles
present participleinisling
past participleinisled
pastinisled

Origin of inisle

From in- + isle.

Questions about inisle

What is inisle the obsolete form of?
Inisle is the obsolete form of enisle.

Words near inisle in the dictionary

  1. inirritability
  2. inirritable
  3. inirritative
  4. Inishmeane
  5. Inishowen
  6. inisle
  7. inisled
  8. inisles
  9. inisling
  10. init
  11. Initan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: inisle (page history and authors); enisle (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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