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ensphere

American  
[en-sfeer] / ɛnˈsfɪər /

verb (used with object)

ensphered, ensphering
  1. to enclose in or as if in a sphere.

  2. to form into a sphere.


ensphere British  
/ ɪnˈsfɪə /

verb

  1. to enclose in or as if in a sphere

  2. to make spherical in form

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of ensphere

First recorded in 1605–15; en- 1 + sphere

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Thy gloomy snares the world ensphere: Where no man calls, thou lov'st to go; But when we call, thou wilt not hear.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes

Unfaltering trust, complete content, The days ensphere, Each meal becomes a sacrament, And heaven is here.

From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by Mudge, James

And all was happiness and right, beauty and strength; And every star heard all her radiant sons With songs of love ensphere her mother-breast; And all blessed Life.

From Laura Secord, the heroine of 1812. A Drama. and Other Poems. by Curzon, Sarah Anne

We want men in law who shall realize that the function of the legal profession is to build up justice and ensphere it in the will of the people.

From Men in the Making by Shepherd, Ambrose

Mr. Judd was a good scholar, and the word is legitimately compounded, like ensphere and imparadise; but he did not invent it.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 by Various

She took my hand and said: Here shalt thou be With me ensphered, unless desires mislead; Lo!

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes

I tried to build about me such a little globe of ease as always ensphered her, and thought of all that remained good in our lives though Chris was gone.

From The Return of the Soldier by West, Rebecca

"What lovely ideals must blossom upon her canvases!" she thought as she saw a fair vision of rose-tints, creamy texture and sculptured lines ensphered in a halo of golden hair.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. by Various

Blessed the heaven, in music ensphered, Blessed the world, as thy mirror endeared!

From Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes by Zweig, Stefan

From the froth of poetry, they rose to a contemplation of the old classics; Homer, Euripides, Sophocles, Virgil, rising grandly from their dust, ensphered in vibratory eloquence.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

Emerson's ensphering universality overspreads Carlyle like the sky above a volcanic island.

From Modern Essays by Ayres, Harry Morgan

Michael in continuation sings of the ensphering atmosphere and the storms that rage in it, darting forth tongues of lightning, and howling in gusts over land and sea.

From The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays by Masson, David

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