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immure

verb
/ɪˈmjʊə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From Middle English enmuren and Middle French emmurer, both from Old French enmurer, from Latin immūrō, from in- + mūrus (“wall”). Modern spelling is modelled after the Latin.

  1. derived from immūrō
  2. derived from enmurer
  3. borrowed from emmurer
  4. inherited from enmuren

Definitions

  1. To cloister, confine, imprison or hole up

    To cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls.

    • The gentlemen looked at each other for a ſolution of this ſtrange event, each preſuming an order had been obtained to again immure the unfortunate Clara.
    • In a happy moment for the Levy-Lawson-Levis, Lady Lytton was betrayed, seized, and immured. The Editor saw his chance, and made the Metropolis ring with the outrage. Levi was saved; so also was Lady Lytton.

  2. To put or bury within a wall.

    • John's body was immured Thursday in the mausoleum.
    • The dreadful punishment of immuring persons, or burying them alive in the walls of convents, was undoubtedly sometimes resorted to by monastic communities.

  3. To wall in.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. To trap or capture (an impurity)

      To trap or capture (an impurity); chiefly in the participial adjective immured and gerund or gerundial noun immuring.

    2. A wall

      A wall; an enclosure.

      • […]Troy, within whose strong emures[…]

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Derived

bioimmure, immured

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA