From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
[2011]
*** Etymology
From [en] and [en], both from [en], from [en], from [la] + [la]. Modern
spelling is modelled after the Latin.
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To cloister , confine , imprison or hole up : to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls.
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1799 | author=w:Mary Meeke | title=Elleſmere: A Novel | volume=IV | publisher=William Lane | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=HWKjmTlR_zMC&pg=PA220&dq=immure | pages=219–220
|passage=The gentlemen looked at each other for a ſolution of this ſtrange
event, each preſuming an order had been obtained to again IMMURE the
unfortunate Clara.}}
1. * [en]
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1880 | author=w:Rosina Bulwer Lytton | title= Basa Sunda: A Blighted Life/Preface | section=Preface
|passage=In a happy moment for the Levy-Lawson-Levis, Lady Lytton was
betrayed, seized, and IMMURED. The Editor saw his chance, and made the
Metropolis ring with the outrage. Levi was saved; so also was Lady Lytton.}}
1. * [year=1930]
2. * 1933 December, Albert H. Cotton, “ A Note on the Civil Remedies of Injured Consumers (see http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?collection=journals&handle=hein.journals/lcp1&div=14) ”, in David F. Cavers (editor), Duke University School of Law, _Law and Contemporary Problems_ , Volume I Number I, Duke University Press (1934), page 71 (see http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/lcp1&id=75&terms=immured&collection=journals) :
3. *: This rule is followed in all common-law jurisdictions, although it was not adopted by the House of Lords until 1932, and then only with vigorous dissent, in a case where a mouse was IMMURED in a ginger-beer bottle.
4. * [en]
5. [en] To put or bury within a wall .
6. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1906 | author=w:Robert Chambers | title=The Book of Days | volume=1 | pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=7kYJAAAAIAAJ&q=%22immures%7Cimmuring%7Cimmured%22&dq=%22immures%7Cimmuring%7Cimmured%22&hl=en&ei=nl9QTqrQEKbimAWopszYBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCgQ6AEwADge | page=807
|passage=The dreadful punishment of IMMURING persons, or burying them alive in
the walls of convents, was undoubtedly sometimes resorted to by monastic
communities.}}
1. To wall in .
2. [en] To trap or capture (an impurity ); [chiefly in the participial adjective [en] and gerund or gerundial noun [en] .]
3. * 1975 , 吴语: American Institute of Physics , American Crystallographic Association, _Soviet Physics, Crystallography_ , Volume 19, Issues 1-3, |immuring | immured%22&dq=%22immures | immuring | immured%22&hl=en&ei=-VxQTqIMp9-YBZfIlcYG&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CEEQ6AEwBjgU page 296 (see http://books.google.com/books?id=93ocAQAAMAAJ&q=%22immures) ,
4. *: On increasing the supercooling, the step starts completely IMMURING the impurity and <math> v </math> rises sharply.
**** Synonyms
- [imprison] [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en]
- [bury] [en]
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Related terms
- [en]
**** Translations
[to lock up behind walls]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Ido: [io]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
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[to put or bury within a wall]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Ido: [io]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
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- Woiwurrung: [wyi]
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*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] A wall ; an enclosure .
2. * [prologue]
**** Alternative forms
- [en]
[en]