Associations to the word «Immure»
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Wiktionary
IMMURE, verb. (transitive) To cloister, confine, imprison: to lock up behind walls.
IMMURE, verb. (transitive) To put or bury within a wall.
IMMURE, verb. (transitive) (crystallography and geology) (of a growing crystal) To trap or capture (an impurity); chiefly in the participial adjective immured and gerund or gerundial noun immuring.
IMMURE, noun. (obsolete) A wall; an enclosure.
Dictionary definition
IMMURE, verb. Lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life".
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.