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English
Etymology
From en- + hearse.
Verb
enhearse (third-person singular simple present enhearses, present participle enhearsing, simple past and past participle enhearsed)
- (transitive) To place into, or as if into, a hearse or coffin.
1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Doubtless he would have made a noble knight;
See, where he lies inhearsed in the arms
Of the most bloody nurser of his harms!
1617, Richard Brathwait, A Solemne Joviall Disputation, London:Enhearse thy sable soule in lasting feares;
Enroule thy selfe amongst all mourners chiefe:
1885, Jean Ingelow, “Speranza”, in Poems of the Old Days and the New, Boston: Roberts Brothers, page 77:Who, even that might, would dwell for ever pent
In this fair frame that doth the spirit inhearse,
2002, X. J. Kennedy, “Mustafa Ferrari”, in The Lords of Misrule, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, page 23:Dutifully we queue
By twosomes for each surrey cloaked in black
To pull up and enhearse us.