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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

ensepulchre en · VERB

Etymology

From en- + sepulchre.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To confine in, or as if in, a sepulchre.
    • Look to it – is it likely that the corpse ensepulchred will take with lovingkindness these offerings from her, by whom he died dishonoured, like one loathed, and was marred by her mishewing? 1895, E. D. A. Morshead, The Ajax and Electra of Sophocles, page 92:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
ensepulchring Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
ensepulchres Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
ensepulchred Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
ensepulchred Tense=Past lexicographic