immure

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

IMMU'RE, verb transitive [Latin in and murus, a wall.] 1. To inclose within walls; to shut up; to confine; as, to immure nuns in cloisters. The student immures himself voluntarily. 2. To wall; to surround with walls. Lysimachus immured it with a wall. [Not usual.] 3. To imprison. IMMU'RE, noun A wall. [Not used.]
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