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▪ I. immure, v.|ɪˈmjʊə(r)|
Also 6 emure.
[ad. med.L. immūrāre, f. im- (im-1) + mūrus wall (cf. late L. mūrāre to wall). Cf. F. emmurer, which may be the immediate source.]
†1. trans. To wall in, to surround with a wall or walls; to fortify. (= late L. murare.) Obs.
1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. iv. Handie-crafts 375 With stones..And clayie morter..he immures his fort. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 114 These [walls]..appeare to have immured but a part of the Citie. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 75 An Altar..immured by a Square Wall. 1746Tour through Ireland ix. 187 It is certain the Town was immured long before that Date.
absol.1636G. Sandys Paraphr. Div. Poems, Eccl. iii. (1648) 4 A time to batter down, a time t'immure.
2. To shut up or enclose within walls; to imprison; to confine as in a prison or fortress.
1588Shakes. L.L.L. iii. i. 126 Thou wert emured, restrained, captiuated, bound. 1594― Rich. III, iv. i. 100 Pitty, you ancient Stones, those tender Babes, Whom Enuie hath immur'd within your Walls. c1645Howell Lett. I. vi. l, 'Tis not so tedious to me, as to others to be thus immur'd (in the Fleet). 1791Mrs. Radcliffe Rom. Forest iii, Too long I had been immured in the walls of a cloister. 1847Disraeli Tancred i. ii, Resolved to break his son's spirit by keeping him immured in the country. 1879Dixon Windsor I. ii. 17 As rebels..they were immured in jail.
†b. To shut off, exclude, seclude from. Obs.
1616R. C. Times Whistle v. 2328 Whom carnall sence & appetite immures From God & goodnesse. 1652–62Heylin Cosmogr. iii. (1682) 130 They live immured from the sight of the World.
3. transf. and fig. To enclose, encompass, encircle, surround; to shut in, confine. Now rare.
1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. i. (1877) 23 A pleasant..Iland, immured aboute with the Sea. 1588Shakes. L.L.L. iv. iii. 328 Loue first learned in a Ladies eyes, Liues not alone emured in the braine. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 135 The lodge here is in a craggie place immured betwixt two Hils. 1725Pope Odyss. xxiii. 44 Immur'd we sat, and catch'd each passing sound. 1820Scoresby Acc. Arctic Reg. I. 298 In situations far immured among the northern ice.
b. refl. To shut oneself up.
1586Warner Alb. Eng. ii. vii. (1612) 30 They and their King, immure themselves at length. 1627May Lucan ii. (1631) 19 Himselfe immuring in Brundusium's hold. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 180 ⁋9 Men bred in shades and silence, taught to immure themselves at sunset. 1826Disraeli Viv. Grey iii. i, To immure himself for three years in a German University.
4. To build into a wall; to build up or entomb in a wall. Also transf.
1675E. Wilson Spadacr. Dunelm. 9 Hairs, Straws, Grains of Sand [etc.] are frequently found immured in Hailstones. 1808[see immured]. 1851[see immuring]. 1863Sir G. Scott Glean. Westm. Abb. (ed. 2) 64 The end of the tomb has been immured in the lower part of the chapel of King Henry V.
Hence iˈmmuring vbl. n.
1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey ii. ii. 49 Immounding, impayling, immuring, skirting, Girding. 1851J. H. Newman Cath. in Eng. 115 The torturings, the starvings, the immurings, the murderings proper to a monastic establishment.
▪ II. † iˈmmure, n. Obs. rare.
In 7 emure.
[f. immure v.]
Something that immures; a wall.
1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. Prol. 8 Their vow is made To ransacke Troy, within whose strong emures The rauish'd Helen..sleepes. |