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im⋅mure

[i-myoor]
–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 )


im⋅mure⋅ment, im⋅mu⋅ra⋅tion [im-yuh-rey-shuhn] , noun
im·mure   (ĭ-myŏŏr')   
tr.v.   im·mured, im·mur·ing, im·mures
  1. To confine within or as if within walls; imprison.
  2. To build into a wall: immure a shrine.
  3. To entomb in a wall.

[Medieval Latin immūrāre : Latin in-, in; see in-2 + Latin mūrus, wall.]
im·mure'ment n.

Immure

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. [Obs.] --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.

Immure

Im*mure"\, n. A wall; an inclosure. [Obs.] --Shak.

immure 
1583, from M.L. immurare, lit. "to shut up within walls," from L. in- "in" + murus "wall" (see mural)
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