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Verb
inshrine (third-person singular simple present inshrines, present participle inshrining, simple past and past participle inshrined)
- Archaic form of enshrine.
1755, Adam Fitz-Adam, The World, number CXXI, London, page 789:In the midſt of all this buſtle, I was ſtruck with the appearance of a large bevy of beauties and women of the firſt fashion, who with all the perfect confidence of good breeding, inſhrined themſelves in the ſeveral temples dedicated to the Cyprian Venus[.]
1798 July, Walter Savage Landor, “Book IV”, in Gebir; a Poem, , London: Rivingtons, , →OCLC, page 35, lines 29–32:How many a night serene, shall I behold / Those vvarm attractive orbits, close inshrined / In ether, over vvhich Love's column rose / Marmoreal, trophied round vvith golden hair.
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