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
Next we drove to San Paolo fuori le mure, of the burning of which Thorwaldsen's Museum possesses a painting by Leopold Robert, but which at that time had been entirely re-built in the antique style.
From Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Georg Morris Cohen Brandes
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 Robert Green Ingersoll
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 Charlotte Mary Yonge
And he had let mure all the mountain about with a strong wall and a fair.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
"I wouldn't call it voluntary," he mur mured.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Hanford Lennox Gordon
P.S.—So you are keeping Jack mured up with you and your magnum opus.
From The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance by Paul Elmer More
"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 Henry Cabot Lodge
Perhaps it was because of this that Brother Sebastian had been mured up in the capital two-thirds of his life.
From Short Story Classics (American) Vol. 2 by William Patten
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