inisle

I1N1I1S1L1E1

A form of enisle — To make into an island.

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Meanings

verbinisle (third-person singular simple present inisles, present participle inisling, simple past and past participle inisled)

present singular third person inisles · participle present inisling · participle past inisled · past inisled

  1. obsoleteObsolete form of enisle.

    The wondrous 'World of Glass', wherein inisled / All long'd for things their beings did repeat

    1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “The Pang More Sharp Than All”, in The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published 1854
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    So Scardale tow'rds the same, that lovely Iddle sends, / That helps the fertile seat of Axholme to in-isle

    1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion

    It begins with Rother, whose running through the woods, in inisling Oxney, and such like, poetically here described is plain enough to any apprehending conceit […]

    1793, A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain, volume 3

Origin

From in- + isle.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

Iselinsilenisiline
Cite this entry
APA

inisle. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inisle

MLA

“inisle.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inisle. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “inisle,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inisle.

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