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inisle en · VERB

Etymology

From in- + isle.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, obsolete) Obsolete form of enisle.
   alt of enisle
   • So Scardale tow'rds the same, that lovely Iddle sends, / That helps the fertile seat of Axholme to in-isle 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion:
   • The wondrous 'World of Glass', wherein inisled / All long'd for things their beings did repeat 1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “The Pang More Sharp Than All”, in The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published 1854:
   • 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 […] 1793, A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain, volume 3:

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