ensky

American  

[en-skahy] / ɛnˈskaɪ /

verb (used with object)

enskied, enskyed, enskying

1. to place in or as if in the heavens; exalt.

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Etymology

Origin of ensky

First recorded in 1595–1605; en- ¹ + sky

Example Sentences

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enskied enskyed

She was to me "a thing enskied" and heavenly--for all her quick human interests, and her sweet ways with those she loved.

From A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1 by Mrs. Humphry Ward

Flags, in that wind, are like nations enskied.

From The New Morning Poems by Alfred Noyes

Others carry the subject into the more formal compositions of the enthroned and enskied Madonnas, being, as we have seen, not without illustrious predecessors among the old masters.

From The Madonna in Art by Estelle M. (Estelle May) Hurll

Together they had bravoed the great tragedians, and together hopelessly worshipped the beautiful faces, enskied and sainted, of famous actresses.

From Young Lives by Richard Le Gallienne

In so exalted a station he would be "enskied and sainted."

From The Art of Disappearing by John Talbot Smith

It was one of her peculiar charms, and often brought to my mind the line addressed to the vowed Isabella, in Measure for Measure: I hold you for a thing enskyed and saintly.

From The Friendships of Women by William Rounseville Alger

She is a thing enskyed and sainted, and yet we feel no incongruity in the love of the King of France for her, as we do in the love of the Duke for Isabella.

From Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

There will be a market for your wares, the critics will approve, and at the Salon your work will never be either enskyed nor consigned to the catacombs.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists by Elbert Hubbard

I hold you as a thing enskyed, and sainted; By your renouncement an immortal spirit, And to be talked with in sincerity, As with a saint.

From Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson