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Definition of Inshrine
1. v. t. See Enshrine.
Definition of Inshrine
1. Verb. (archaic form of enshrine) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Inshrine
1. to enshrine [v -SHRINED, -SHRINING, -SHRINES] - See also: enshrine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inshrine
Literary usage of Inshrine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language ...by John Walker by John Walker (1806)
"... m-ship'. va To inshrine, în-shrine'. va To shut in a ship, to stop, to embark.
.... inshrine ..."
2. The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853)
"For which reason he gives his sons a positive order not to inshrine it in gold
or silver, but to lay it in the earth as soon as the life was gone out of it. ..."
3. The Paradise Lost of Milton by John Milton (1858)
"Not Babylon, Nor great Alcairo, such magnificence Equall'd in all their glories,
to inshrine Belus or Serapis, their gods; or seat Their kings, ..."
4. The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart by John Milton, John Mitford, Walter Scott (1850)
"Not Babylon, Nor great Alcairo such magnificence Equall'd in all their glories,
to inshrine Belus or Serapis their gods, or seat 720 TO* A various ..."
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