enisle

present singular third person enisles · participle present enisling · participle past enisled · past enisled · alternative inisle

1. transitiveTo make into an island.

   […] park-like belts of villas enisled by lawns […]

   1966, David Keir, The City of Edinburgh, Collins, page 28

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   […] long before England itself was enisled by the sea.

   1930, Walter De la Mare, Desert Islands and Robinson Crusoe, New York: Farrar & Rinehart, page 118

2. broadlyfigurativelytransitiveTo isolate.

   […] no reply / Comes from the vast, enisling sphere / Of spirit, limitless, divine, / So far from me, so strangely mine.

   1876, Edmond Holmes, “After Death”, in Poems, London: Henry S. King & Co., page 82

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   To-night, dear, / Let's forget all that, that and the war, / And enisle ourselves a little beyond time, / You with this Irish whiskey, I with red wine / While the stars go over the sleepless ocean,

   1925, Robinson Jeffers, “For Una”, in The Wild God of the World: An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers, Stanford University Press, published 2003, p

   […] one in ten New Orleansians lived in the projects—some 50,000 souls more or less, almost all of them women with too many children, a gulag of women and children enisled by poverty.

   2005, Jed Horne, Desire Street: A True Story of Death and Deliverance in New Orleans, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, page 25