verb
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to enclose in or as if in a sphere
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to make spherical in form
Etymology
Origin of ensphere
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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
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
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 Hardy, Thomas
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
Blessed the heaven, in music ensphered, Blessed the world, as thy mirror endeared!
From Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes by Zweig, Stefan
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
She was ensphered from the world of creative effort in the establishment of her own perfection.
From The Judge by West, Rebecca
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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