单词 | enisle |
释义 | enisleinislev. a. To make into an isle. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > island > make island of [verb (transitive)] insulatea1552 isle1596 enisle1612 island1661 insularize1891 α. β. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion viii. 121 Into what sundry gyres her wondered selfe she [a river] throwes, And oft in-Iles the shore.1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 91 This Chazaria or Gazaria..almost inisled by the Seas Delle Zabache and Maggiore.a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1836) I. 366 Knots of curds inisled by interjacent whey at irregular distances.1878 J. R. Seeley Life & Times Stein II. 156 Let the wild sea inisle thee.c1630 W. Drummond of Hawthornden Sextain Mine eyes en-isle themselves with floods. b. To place or settle on an isle. Also figurative. To isolate, sever, cut off. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > separate [verb (intransitive)] dealc1000 to make separationc1450 to break up1535 diverta1575 disjoina1642 unherd1661 separate1690 to cut (also slip) the painter1699 enisle1852 segregate1863 bust1880 isolate1988 α. 1852 M. Arnold Empedocles on Etna, & Other Poems 96 In the sea of life enisl'd..We mortal millions live alone. 1887 R. Browning F. Furini in Parleyings x My self-consciousness 'Twixt ignorance and ignorance enisled. Derivatives iˈnisled adj. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > island > [adjective] > made insulated1776 islanded1801 inisled1809 isleted1873 1809–10 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1865) 38 The base of the inisled Ararat. 1880 M. B. Betham-Edwards Forestalled I. i. ii. 19 Far away lay many an inisled kingdom of fisherfolk. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < v.1612 |
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