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enhearse en · VERB

Etymology

From en- + hearse.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To place into, or as if into, a hearse or coffin.
   • Doubtless he would have made a noble knight; See, where he lies inhearsed in the arms Of the most bloody nurser of his harms! 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vii]:
   • Dutifully we queue By twosomes for each surrey cloaked in black To pull up and enhearse us. 2002, X. J. Kennedy, “Mustafa Ferrari”, in The Lords of Misrule, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, page 23:
   • Who, even that might, would dwell for ever pent In this fair frame that doth the spirit inhearse, 1885, Jean Ingelow, “Speranza”, in Poems of the Old Days and the New, Boston: Roberts Brothers, page 77:
   • Enhearse thy sable soule in lasting feares; Enroule thy selfe amongst all mourners chiefe: 1617, Richard Brathwait, A Solemne Joviall Disputation, London:

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