inshrine
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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Shall the poet, then, inshrine his visions as William Blake did, for his own delight, and leave us unenlightened by his apocalypse?
From The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years by Atkins, Elizabeth
Not Babilon, Nor great Alcairo such magnificence Equal'd in all thir glories, to inshrine Belus or Serapis thir Gods, or seat 720 Thir Kings, when Aegypt with Assyria strove In wealth and luxurie.
From The Poetical Works of John Milton by Milton, John
Sees yonder sun, from his meridian height, ‘A lovelier scene, than Virtue thus inshrined ‘In power, and man with man for mutual aid combine!
From The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius with some other poems by Beattie, James
They seem all to have run into that general mistake of forming a new personage from a title, and making the Deity a native, where he was inshrined.
From A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) by Bryant, Jacob
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