v. [f. EN-1, IN- + ISLE.] a. To make into an isle. b. To place or settle on an isle. Also fig. To isolate, sever, cut off.
α. c. 1630. Drumm. of Hawth., Sextain. Mine eyes en-isle themselves with floods.
1848. M. Arnold, Poems (1872), II. 17. In the sea of life enisled … We mortal millions live alone.
1887. Browning, Parleyings, F. Furini, x. My self-consciousness ’Twixt ignorance and ignorance enisled.
β. 1612. Drayton, Poly-olb., viii. 121.
| Into what sundry gyres her wondered selfe she [a river] throwes, | |
| And oft in-Iles the shore, as wantonly she flowes. |
1614. Selden, Titles Hon., 91. This Chazaria or Gazaria … almost inisled by the Seas Delle Zabache and Maggiore.
1812. Coleridge, Lit. Rem. (1836), I. 366. Knots of curds inisled by interjacent whey at irregular distances.
1878. Seeley, Stein, II. 156. Let the wild sea inisle thee.
Hence Inisled ppl. a.
1809–10. Coleridge, Friend (1865), 38. The base of the inisled Ararat.
1880. Miss Betham-Edwards, Forestalled, I. I. ii. 19. Far away lay many an inisled kingdom of fisherfolk.
