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English
Etymology
From in- + isle.
Verb
inisle (third-person singular simple present inisles, present participle inisling, simple past and past participle inisled)
- Obsolete form of enisle.
1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion:So Scardale tow'rds the same, that lovely Iddle sends, / That helps the fertile seat of Axholme to in-isle
1793, A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain, volume 3:It begins with Rother, whose running through the woods, in inisling Oxney, and such like, poetically here described is plain enough to any apprehending conceit […]
1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “The Pang More Sharp Than All”, in The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published 1854:The wondrous 'World of Glass', wherein inisled / All long'd for things their beings did repeat
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