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immuration

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im⋅mure

  [i-myoor]
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–verb (used with object), -mured, -mur⋅ing.
1. to enclose within walls.
2. to shut in; seclude or confine.
3. to imprison.
4. to build into or entomb in a wall.
5. Obsolete. to surround with walls; fortify.
Origin:
1575–85; < ML immūrāre, equiv. to L im- im- 1 + -mūrāre, v. deriv. of mūrus wall (cf. mural )

Related forms:
im⋅mure⋅ment, im⋅mu⋅ra⋅tion  [im-yuh-rey-shuhn] , noun
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immure 
1583, from M.L. immurare, lit. "to shut up within walls," from L. in- "in" + murus "wall" (see mural)
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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