Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to ensphere
Participle: ensphered
Gerund: ensphering
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | ensphere |
| you | ensphere |
| he;she;it | enspheres |
| we | ensphere |
| you | ensphere |
| they | ensphere |
Perfect
| I | have ensphered |
| you | have ensphered |
| he;she;it | has ensphered |
| we | have ensphered |
| you | have ensphered |
| they | have ensphered |
Past
| I | ensphered |
| you | ensphered |
| he;she;it | ensphered |
| we | ensphered |
| you | ensphered |
| they | ensphered |
Pluperfect
| I | had ensphered |
| you | had ensphered |
| he;she;it | had ensphered |
| we | had ensphered |
| you | had ensphered |
| they | had ensphered |
Future
| I | will ensphere |
| you | will ensphere |
| he;she;it | will ensphere |
| we | will ensphere |
| you | will ensphere |
| they | will ensphere |
Future Perfect
| I | will have ensphered |
| you | will have ensphered |
| he;she;it | will have ensphered |
| we | will have ensphered |
| you | will have ensphered |
| they | will have ensphered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | ensphere |
| you | ensphere |
| he;she;it | ensphere |
| we | ensphere |
| you | ensphere |
| they | ensphere |
Perfect
| I | have ensphered |
| you | have ensphered |
| he;she;it | have ensphered |
| we | have ensphered |
| you | have ensphered |
| they | have ensphered |
Imperfect
| I | ensphered |
| you | ensphered |
| he;she;it | ensphered |
| we | ensphered |
| you | ensphered |
| they | ensphered |
Pluperfect
| I | had ensphered |
| you | had ensphered |
| he;she;it | had ensphered |
| we | had ensphered |
| you | had ensphered |
| they | had ensphered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would ensphere |
| you | would ensphere |
| he;she;it | would ensphere |
| we | would ensphere |
| you | would ensphere |
| they | would ensphere |
Perfect
| I | would have ensphered |
| you | would have ensphered |
| he;she;it | would have ensphered |
| we | would have ensphered |
| you | would have ensphered |
| they | would have ensphered |
Imperative
| you | ensphere |
| we | Let's ensphere |
| you | ensphere |
Verbs conjugated like 'ensphere'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'ensphere'
insphere,
unsphere,
sphere,
answere,
encipher,
enpierce,
enquere,
enserf,
enshell,
ensnare,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From en- + sphere.
Sample Sentences
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shee whose eies enspheard
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Star-light inough, t’haue made the South controll,
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(Had shee beene there) the Starfull Northern Pole, [1612, John Donne, “The Second Anniuersarie. Of the Progres of the Soule”, in The First Anniuersarie. An Anatomie of the World, London: S. Macham, page 8:]
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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,
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His ample shoulders in a cloud enspher’d
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Of fiery crimson.
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1634, John Milton, Comus, London: Humphrey Robinson, 1637, p. 1,
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Before the starrie threshold of Ioves Court
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My mansion is, where those immortall shapes
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Of bright aëreall Spirits live insphear’d
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In Regions mild of calme and serene aire,
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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, [...] [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, page 91:]
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The girl for whom he was beginning to nourish an extraordinary tenderness was at this time ensphered by the same harmonies [those of the church choir and organ] as those which floated into his ears; and the thought was a delight to him. [1895, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, Part 2, Chapter 3:]
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It was afternoon […] which meant that all the ample, high, soft-blue leather desks along the spokes of the great wheel that radiated from the Superintendent’s desk, ensphered by the Catalogue, were taken, and he had to be content with one of the minimal flat triangular ends of the late-come segments inserted between the spokes. [1990, A. S. Byatt, chapter 3, in Possession, New York: Random House, page 31:]
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Virgins of equall birth, of equall years,
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Whose vertues held with thine an emulous strife,
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Shall draw thy picture, and record thy life;
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One shall ensphere thine eyes, another shall
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Impearl thy teeth; a third thy white and small
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Hand shall besnow, a fourth, incarnadine
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Thy rosie cheek, [1651, Thomas Carew, “Obsequies to the Lady Anne Hay”, in Poems, with a Maske, London: H.M, page 91:]
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1938, T. F. Higham (translator), Song 142 (“The Moon”) by Sappho, in The Oxford Book of Greek Verse in Translation, Oxford University Press, p. 140,
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Bright stars, around the fair Selênê peering,
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No more their beauty to the night discover
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When she, at full, her silver light ensphering,
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Floods the world over.