ensphere
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To place in a sphere; to surround in all directions (as if) by a sphere (one of the concentric hollow transparent globes formerly believed to rotate around the Earth).
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "shee whose eies enspheard Star-light inough, t’haue made the South controll, (Had shee beene there) the Starfull Northern Pole,"
- "c. 1624, George Chapman (translator), “Hymn to Hermes” by Homer in The Hymns of Homer; The Batrachomyomachia; and Two Original Poetical Hymns, Chistnick: C. Whittingham, 1818, p. 64, His ample shoulders in a cloud enspher’d Of fiery crimson."
- "1634, John Milton, Comus, London: Humphrey Robinson, 1637, p. 1, Before the starrie threshold of Ioves Court My mansion is, where those immortall shapes Of bright aëreall Spirits live insphear’d In Regions mild of calme and serene aire,"
- "Virgins of equall birth, [...] / Shall draw thy picture, and record thy life; / One ſhall enſphere thine eyes, another ſhall / Impearl thy teeth[,] a third thy white and ſmall / Hand ſhall beſnow, a fourth incarnadine / Thy roſie cheek, [...]"
- "The girl for whom he was beginning to nourish an extraordinary tenderness was at this time ensphered by the same harmonies [those of the church choir and organ] as those which floated into his ears; and the thought was a delight to him."
- "It was afternoon […] which meant that all the ample, high, soft-blue leather desks along the spokes of the great wheel that radiated from the Superintendent’s desk, ensphered by the Catalogue, were taken, and he had to be content with one of the minimal flat triangular ends of the late-come segments inserted between the spokes."
Etymology
From en- + sphere.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: en
Usage
Inflected Forms
enspheres (present, singular)
ensphering (participle, present)
ensphered (participle, past)
ensphered (past)
ensphear (alternative)
insphear (alternative)
insphere (alternative)