Immure

English

Etymology

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Verb

1. Template:Lb To cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls.
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   • 1933 December, Albert H. Cotton, “A Note on the Civil Remedies of Injured Consumers”, in David F. Cavers (editor), Duke University School of Law, Law and Contemporary Problems, Volume I Number I, Duke University Press (1934), page 71:

     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.

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2. Template:Lb To put or bury within a wall.

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3. To wall in.
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   • 1975, American Institute of Physics, American Crystallographic Association, Soviet Physics, Crystallography, Volume 19, Issues 1-3, page 296,

     On increasing the supercooling, the step starts completely immuring the impurity and $v$ rises sharply.

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Noun

1. Template:Lb A wall; an enclosure.
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