enhearse
English
Alternative forms
- inhearse
Etymology
en- + hearse
Verb
enhearse (third-person singular simple present enhearses, present participle enhearsing, simple past and past participle enhearsed)
- (transitive) To place into, or as if into, a hearse or coffin.
- 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene vii]:
- Doubtless he would have made a noble knight;
See, where he lies inhearsed in the arms
Of the most bloody nurser of his harms!
- 1617, Richard Brathwait, A Solemne Joviall Disputation, London, p. ,
- Enhearse thy sable soule in lasting feares;
- Enroule thy selfe amongst all mourners chiefe:
- 1885, Jean Ingelow, “Speranza” in Poems of the Old Days and the New, Boston: Roberts Brothers, p. 77,
- Who, even that might, would dwell for ever pent
- In this fair frame that doth the spirit inhearse,
- 2002, X. J. Kennedy, “Mustafa Ferrari” in The Lords of Misrule, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, p. 23,
- Dutifully we queue
- By twosomes for each surrey cloaked in black
- To pull up and enhearse us.
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