Ensphere

Quick meaning: Ensphere is a verb meaning (transitive) To form into a sphere.

Meaning

(transitive) To form into a sphere.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To place in a sphere; to surround in all directions (as if) by a sphere (one of the concentric hollow transparent globes formerly believed to rotate around the Earth).

Example Sentences

shee whose eies enspheard Star-light inough, t’haue made the South controll, (Had shee beene there) the Starfull Northern Pole,

1634, John Milton, Comus, London: Humphrey Robinson, 1637, p. 1, Before the starrie threshold of Ioves Court My mansion is, where those immortall shapes Of bright aëreall Spirits live insphear’d In Regions mild of calme and serene aire,

The girl for whom he was beginning to nourish an extraordinary tenderness was at this time ensphered by the same harmonies [those of the church choir and organ] as those which floated into his ears; and the thought was a delight to him.

c. 1624, George Chapman (translator), “Hymn to Hermes” by Homer in The Hymns of Homer; The Batrachomyomachia; and Two Original Poetical Hymns, Chistnick: C. Whittingham, 1818, p. 64, His ample shoulders in a cloud enspher’d Of fiery crimson.

Word Forms

• enspheres
• ensphering
• ensphered
• ensphear

Synonyms for ensphere

Depending on context, synonyms include engulf, envelop.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include astroproject, extraspect, espy, isekai, enspirit, sense.

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