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Definition of Enshrine
1. Verb. Enclose in a shrine. "The saint's bones were enshrined in the cathedral"
2. Verb. Hold sacred.
Definition of Enshrine
1. v. t. To inclose in a shrine or chest; hence, to preserve or cherish as something sacred; as, to enshrine something in memory.
Definition of Enshrine
1. Verb. (transitive) To enclose (a sacred relic etc.) in a shrine or chest. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To preserve or cherish (something) as though in a shrine; to preserve or contain, especially with some reverence. ¹
3. Verb. To protect an idea, ideal, or philosophy within an official law or treaty ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Enshrine
1. to place in a shrine [v -SHRINED, -SHRINING, -SHRINES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Enshrine
Literary usage of Enshrine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"... and again the circular or polygonal form was prescribed by its relation to
the sacred object or the tomb which they were intended to enshrine. ..."
2. The Mercersburg Review by Alumni Association, Pa.) Marshall College (Mercersburg (1851)
"American Pindar lives to enshrine in immortal odes the glory of these buckskin
contests,—a glory which, in the present state of things, is doomed to elicit ..."
3. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers, Thomas Thomson (1870)
"... will be imperishable, and it will enshrine to all time the name of Colonel
Alexander Seton.1 SHARPE, CHARLES KIRKPATRICK, MA, ..."
4. The Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle (1861)
"... to enshrine His Word in as much of beauty and excellence as we are capable o£
b» accordance with this ..."
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