Dictionary entry

Immure

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Im‐mure″ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Immured (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Immuring.] [Pref. im- in + mure: cf. F. emmurer.] 1. To wall around; to surround with walls. Sandys.

2. To inclose whithin walls, or as within walls; hence, to shut up; to imprison; to incarcerate.

Those tender babes

Whom envy hath immured within your walls. Shak.

This huge convex of fire,

Outrageous to devour, immures us round. Milton.