mure

[ myoor ]

/ myʊər /

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noun

Obsolete. a wall.

verb (used with object), mured, mur·ing.

to immure.

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Origin of mure

1400–50; late Middle English muren (v.) <Middle French murer<Late Latin mūrāre verbal derivative of Latin mūrus wall

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How to use mure in a sentence

Mure's and Talfourd's Histories of Greek literature are put forth in new editions.
The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851|Various
One of his victims was Mure Ferguson, whom he beat by eight and seven.
Fifty Years of Golf|Horace G. Hutchinson
Murrain (or morena in Latin chronicles) is probably the modern survival of mure or murre.
A History of Epidemics in Britain (Volume I of II)|Charles Creighton
The use of the word mure in the St Albans Chronicle is just a century later.
A History of Epidemics in Britain (Volume I of II)|Charles Creighton

Bunch had issued to Mure a paper which the latter regarded as a passport, as did the United States.
Great Britain and the American Civil War|Ephraim Douglass Adams

British Dictionary definitions for mure

mure

/ (mjʊə) /

verb

(tr) an archaic or literary word for immure

Word Origin for mure

C14: from Old French murer, from Latin mūrus wall

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