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  • 21immure — (v.) 1580s, from M.Fr. emmurer and directly from M.L. immurare, lit. to shut up within walls, from assimilated form of in into, in (see IN (Cf. in ) (2)) + L. murus wall (see MURAL (Cf. mural)). Related: Immured; immuring …

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  • 22incarceration — n. Imprisonment, immuring, jailing, putting in duress, durance, or jail, confinement, commitment …

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  • 23commitment — n 1. entrustment, entrusting, commending, confiding; assignment, assigning, relegation, relegating, placing in charge, appointing, appointment; commission, authorization, deputation, delegation, investment, empowering; sending, dispatching,… …

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  • 24immure — UK [ɪˈmjʊə(r)] / US [ɪˈmjʊr] verb [transitive] Word forms immure : present tense I/you/we/they immure he/she/it immures present participle immuring past tense immured past participle immured literary to put someone in a place and prevent them… …

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  • 25immure — /ɪˈmjuə / (say i myoohuh) verb (t) (immured, immuring) 1. to enclose within walls. 2. to shut in; confine. 3. to imprison. 4. to build into or entomb in a wall. 5. Obsolete to surround with walls; fortify. {Medieval Latin immūrāre, from Latin im… …

  • 26immure — [i myoor′] vt. immured, immuring [< OFr or ML: OFr emmurrer < ML immurare < L in , in + murus, wall: see MERE3] 1. to shut up within or as within walls; imprison, confine, or seclude 2. to entomb in a wall immurement n …

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  • 27immuration — ˌimyəˈrāshən noun ( s) : act of immuring or state of being immured …

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  • 28PHARAOH — The Egyptian expression per aʿo ( the Great House ), transcribed and vocalized pirʿu in Akkadian and parʿo in Hebrew, did not originally designate the king of Egypt, but rather his palace, and was used in this sense in Egyptian texts until the… …

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