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語源

en- +‎ sphere

発音

• 韻: -ɪə(ɹ)

動詞

ensphere (三人称単数 現在形 enspheres, 現在分詞 ensphering, 過去形および過去分詞形 ensphered)

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).

   Synonyms: engulf, envelop

   • 1612, John Donne, “The Second Anniuersarie. Of the Progres of the Soule” in The First Anniuersarie. An Anatomie of the World, London: S. Macham, p. 8,^[1]

     shee whose eies enspheard

     Star-light inough, t’haue made the South controll,

     (Had shee beene there) the Starfull Northern Pole,

   • 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,^[2]

     His ample shoulders in a cloud enspher’d

     Of fiery crimson.

   • 1634, John Milton, Comus, London: Humphrey Robinson, 1637, p. 1,^[3]

     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,

   • 1640 (first publication), Thomas Carew, “Obsequies to the Lady Anne Hay”, in Poems, with a Maske, […], 3rd edition, London: […] H[umphrey] M[oseley] and are to be sold by J[ohn] Martin, […], published 1651, OCLC 15625801, page 91:

     Virgins of equall birth, [...] / Shall draw thy picture, and record thy life; / One ſhall enſphere thine eyes, another ſhall / Impearl thy teeth[,] a third thy white and ſmall / Hand ſhall beſnow, a fourth incarnadine / Thy roſie cheek, [...]