ensepulchre

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verb

To confine in, or as if in, a sepulchre.

Scrabble 18

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verbensepulchre (third-person singular simple present ensepulchres, present participle ensepulchring, simple past and past participle ensepulchred)

present singular third person ensepulchres · participle present ensepulchring · participle past ensepulchred · past ensepulchred

  1. transitiveTo confine in, or as if in, a sepulchre.

    Look to it – is it likely that the corpse ensepulchred will take with lovingkindness these offerings from her, by whom he died dishonoured, like one loathed, and was marred by her mishewing?

    1895, E. D. A. Morshead, The Ajax and Electra of Sophocles, page 92

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