1. trans. To store up in or as in a treasury.
1597. Shaks., 2 Hen. IV., III. i. 85. Which in their Seedes, And weake beginnings lye entreasured.
1610. G. Fletcher, Christ’s Vict., I. iv. The memories of heav’n entreasur’d lie.
1613. Alexander, Sidney’s Arcadia, III. Supp. (1629), 338. They would securely entreasure it in a more precious Place.
1828. Lamb, in Blackw. Mag., XXIV. 772. She should entreasure up a secret In the peculiar closet of her breast.
† 2. To stock with treasure. Obs.
1605. Chapman, Commend. Verses on B. Jonson’s Sejanus. So he [the Ieweller] entreasures Princes Cabinets.
