Definition of ensepulchre in English:
ensepulchre
(US ensepulcher)
verb ɪnˈsɛpəlkəɛnˈsɛpəlkə
[with object]literary Place in a tomb; bury.
Example sentencesExamples
- One vast common doom ensepulchres the world.
- A large quantity of wheat and Indian corn had been secretly buried at the Marquis's Quinta, or Country House; and thirty pipes of good red wine there also ensepulchered.
- Dante's punishment for the "arch heretics and those who followed them" was that they be "ensepulchered" and to have some "heated more, some less."
- With Elizabeth dead, ensepulchred in Florence, their son provided the sustaining focal point of his father's remaining twenty-eight years of life.
- Let the wolves' black maws ensepulchre their brother beast.
Synonyms
bury, lay to rest, consign to the grave, entomb, inurn
Origin
Early 19th century: from en-1 + sepulchre.