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English
Etymology
From en- + isle + -ed.
Adjective
enisled (not comparable)
- Placed alone or apart, as if on an island.
1852, Matthew Arnold, To Marguerite: Continued:YES! in the sea of life enisl’d, / With echoing straits between us thrown, / Dotting the shoreless watery wild, / We mortal millions live alone.
2007, W. J. Thomas Mitchell, The Late Derrida, page 58:For Derrida, no isthmus, no bridge, no road, no communication or transfer, connects or can ever connect my enisled self to other selves.
2015, Lauren Baratz-Logsted, Isn't It Bro-Mantic?: A Johnny Smith Novel:Truth to tell, I'm feeling pretty enisled on my lounge chair, but that state will not hold for long because apparently I have a visitor.
Verb
enisled
- simple past and past participle of enisle
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