v. [f. EN-1 + SKY.] trans. To place in the sky or in heaven; pass. only.

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1603.  Shaks., Meas. for M., I. iv. 34. I hold you as a thing en-skied, and sainted.

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a. 1763.  Shenstone, Odes, Wks. 1765, I. 255. Thou seem’st chang’d; all sainted, all ensky’d.

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1814.  Cary, Dante (Chandos), 226. Of seraphim he who is most ensky’d.

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1858.  Patmore, Angel in Ho., 136. This truth ’s a star, Too deep-enskied for all to see.

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  Hence Enskied ppl. a.

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1852.  Mrs. Jameson, Leg. Madonna (1857), 109. The most majestic of the enthroned and enskied Madonnas.

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