v. [f. EN-1 + SEPULCHRE.] trans. To put into a sepulcher; to entomb. Also transf.
1820. Milman, Fall Jerusalem, 160. The vast common doom ensepulchres the world.
1827. Pollok, Course T., VII. (1828), 250. Cities … ensepulchred beneath the flood.
1841. Moir, in Blackw. Mag., L. 390.
| Yet o’er the oblivious gulf, whose mazy gloom | |
| Ensepulchres so many things. |
1886. Eliz. Charles, in Girard Press, 22 April, 1/5.
| Earth cannot long ensepulcher | |
| In her dark depths the tiniest seed; | |
| When life begins to throb and stir, | |
| The bands of death are weak indeed. |
1885. Tennyson, Balin & Balan, in Tiresias, etc. 146. Let the wolves’ black maws ensepulchre Their brother beast.
