mure
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of mure
1400–50; late Middle English muren (v.) < Middle French murer < Late Latin mūrāre verbal derivative of Latin mūrus wall
Example Sentences
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From Time Magazine Archive
Walter and Virginia came up to the station, and parted with their sister with fondness that was much mure refreshing, Walter reiterating that his was the only plan.
From Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 2 by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
And so with drawing the hole people, he came to a dyck in a mure edge, upoun the sowth-west syd of Mauchlyne, upoun the which he ascended.
From The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) by Laing, David
And he had let mure all the mountain about with a strong wall and a fair.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir
It is no mure wonderful that I should live again than that I do live.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Ingersoll, Robert Green
"I wouldn't call it voluntary," he mur mured.
From Time Magazine Archive
But above all, that beloved disciple, who being so intimate with Jesus Christ,—we may lawfully conceive he was mured to that affectionate frame by his converse with Christ,—has been most mindful of Christ's testamentary injunctions.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh
P.S.—So you are keeping Jack mured up with you and your magnum opus.
From The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance by More, Paul Elmer
All that wealth could bring— Refinement, luxury and ease—was theirs; But I was proud and felt my poverty, And gladly mured myself among the books To master 'the lawless science of the law.'
From The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems by Gordon, Hanford Lennox
"First, then," said Gargantua, "you must not build a wall about your convent, for all other abbeys are strongly walled and mured about."
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I by Lodge, Henry Cabot
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