enniche

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English

Etymology

From en- +‎ niche.

Verb

enniche (third-person singular simple present enniches, present participle enniching, simple past and past participle enniched)

  1. (transitive) To place in a niche.
    • 1761, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman:
      And to do justice to Slawkenbergius, he has entered a list with a stronger lance, and taken a much larger career in it, than any one man who had ever entered it before him,——and indeed, in many respects, deserves to be en-nich'd as a prototype for all writers, of voluminous works at least, to model their books by,

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for enniche”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)