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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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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 James Mudge

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 Ambrose Shepherd

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 Horatio Robert Forbes Brown

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

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 Sarah Anne Curzon

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

From Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes by Stefan Zweig

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 Rebecca West

They formed as it were a little world to themselves, being completely ensphered by the fog, which here was dense as a sea of milk. 

From The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy

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

She was ensphered from the world of creative effort in the establishment of her own perfection.

From The Judge by Rebecca West

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 David Masson

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

From Modern Essays by Harry Morgan Ayres

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