| 释义 |
enisle, inisle, v.|ɛn-, ɪˈnaɪl|
[f. en-1, in- + isle.]
a. To make into an isle.
b. To place or settle on an isle. Also fig. To isolate, sever, cut off.
αc1630Drummond of Hawthornden Sextain, Mine eyes en-isle themselves with floods. 1848M. Arnold Poems (1877) II. 17 In the sea of life enisled..We mortal millions live alone. 1887Browning Parleyings, F. Furini x, My self-consciousness 'Twixt ignorance and ignorance enisled.
β1612Drayton Poly-olb. viii. 357 Into what sundry gyres her wondered self she [a river] throws, And oft inisles the shore. 1614Selden Titles Hon. 91 This Chazaria or Gazaria..almost inisled by the Seas Delle Zabache and Maggiore. 1812Coleridge Lit. Rem. (1836) I. 366 Knots of curds inisled by interjacent whey at irregular distances. 1878Seeley Stein II. 156 Let the wild sea inisle thee.
Hence iˈnisled, ppl. a.
1809–10Coleridge Friend (1865) 38 The base of the inisled Ararat. 1880M. B. Betham-Edwards Forestalled I. i. ii. 19 Far away lay many an inisled kingdom of fisherfolk. |