inshrine

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A form of enshrine — To enclose (a sacred relic etc.) in a shrine or chest.

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Meanings

verbinshrine (third-person singular simple present inshrines, present participle inshrining, simple past and past participle inshrined)

present singular third person inshrines · participle present inshrining · participle past inshrined · past inshrined

  1. archaicArchaic form of enshrine.

    How many a night serene, shall I behold / Those vvarm attractive orbits, close inshrined / In ether, over vvhich Love's column rose / Marmoreal, trophied round vvith golden hair.

    1798 July, Walter Savage Landor, “Book IV”, in Gebir; a Poem, […], London: […] Rivingtons, […], →OCLC, page 35, lines 29–32
    1 more example

    In the midſt of all this buſtle, I was ſtruck with the appearance of a large bevy of beauties and women of the firſt fashion, who with all the perfect confidence of good breeding, inſhrined themſelves in the ſeveral temples dedicated to the Cyprian Venus[.]

    1755, Adam Fitz-Adam, The World, number CXXI, London, page 789
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“inshrine.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inshrine. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “inshrine,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inshrine.

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