ensepulchre
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[edit]ensepulchre (third-person singular simple present ensepulchres, present participle ensepulchring, simple past and past participle ensepulchred)
- (transitive) To confine in, or as if in, a sepulchre.
- 1895, E. D. A. Morshead, The Ajax and Electra of Sophocles, page 92:
- 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?