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ensphere, v.|ɛnˈsfɪə(r)|
Also 7 en-, insphear(e, 7–9 insphere.
[f. en-1 + sphere.]
†1. trans. To place in a (celestial) ‘sphere’.
1615Val. Welshm. (1663) B iij a, Eternal peace Insphear thy soul, and mount it to the stars. 1634Milton Comus 3 Where those immortal shapes Of bright aereal spirits live inspheard.
2. To enclose in, or as in, a sphere; to encircle, enclose. Also fig.
1616Chapman Homer's Hymns, To Hermes 394 His ample shoulders in a cloud enspher'd Of fierie chrimsine. c1630Drummond of Hawthornden Poems Wks. 13 As that high circle, which the rest enspheres. a1634Chapman Sonn. iii, None like Homer hath the world enspher'd, Earth, seas and heaven fix'd in his verse. 1648Herrick Hesper., To King on Taking Leicester, Victory do's rest, Enspher'd with palm on your triumphant crest. 1850Mrs. Browning Poems I. 345 The clear strong stars..insphere Our habitation. 1876T. Hardy Ethelberta II. 98 Being completely ensphered by the fog.
b. To contain as a sphere does.
1612Donne Elegy Mrs. Drury, 2nd Anniv. 78 Wks. 1872 I. 133 Shee whose eyes ensphear'd Star light inough, t' have made the south controll..the star-full northern pole.
3. To make into a sphere, give spherical form to. Also fig.
1640T. Carew Poems, Obseq. Lady A. Hay, Virgins..Shall draw thy picture..One shall enspheare thine eyes. 1852H. Rogers Ecl. Faith (1853) 24 His true emblem is the hedgehog ensphered in his prickles. 1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh i. 1007 Who..turning grandly on his central self Ensphered himself in twenty perfect years.
Hence enˈspherement, enˈsphering vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1841Blackw. Mag. L. 153 Man's belief..received by historic tradition and customary enspherement. 1868Bushnell Serm. Living Subj. 13 A visible insphering in flesh. 1652Benlowes Theoph. iv. xxii, Twining Embraces with 's ensphearing arm of love. 1856Masson Ess. 3 Devils 73 The ensphering atmosphere and the storms that rage in it. |