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ensky

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[en-skahy] / ɛnˈskaɪ /

verb (used with object)

enskied, enskyed, enskying
  1. to place in or as if in the heavens; exalt.


Etymology

Origin of ensky

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

Example Sentences

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When night fell, it was not a night of silver patterns enskied, but a dark and cloudy cloak where a few stars glittered fitfully.

From The Bat by Hopwood, Avery

The pastoral and enskied Madonnas were in high favor in the first period of their perfection.

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

Dunois and d'Aulon and the beautiful Duc d'Alençon, 'le beau Duc' as Joan called him, they all said that she was 'a thing enskied and sainted.'

From The Red True Story Book by Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice)

As for Dorothy, she lives a thing enskied, floating from ecstasy to ecstasy.

From In a Green Shade A Country Commentary by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

Oh Baudelaire, Verlaine and Wilde, they knew the sinks of shame; Their sun-aspiring wings they scorched at passion's altar flame; Yet lo! enthroned, enskied they stand, Immortal Sons of Fame.

From Ballads of a Bohemian by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)

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 Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)

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 Hubbard, Elbert

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 Bradley, A. C. (Andrew Cecil)

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 Alger, William Rounseville

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