"Immure" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... old Arch-fiend did them immure, To terrify them seeking; They bade them God's dear Word abjure, And fain would stop their speaking. From Louvain many Sophists came, Deep versed in human learning, God's Spirit foiled them at their game Their pride to folly turning. They could ...
— The Hymns of Martin Luther • Martin Luther
... confine; shut up, shut in; clap up, lock up, box up, mew up, bottle up, cork up, seal up, button up; hem in, bolt in, wall in, rail in; impound, pen, coop; inclose &c. (circumscribe) 229; cage; incage[obs3], encage[obs3]; close the door upon, cloister; imprison, immure; incarcerate, entomb; clap under hatches, lay under hatches; put in irons, put in a strait-waistcoat; throw into prison, cast into prison; put into bilboes. arrest; take up, take charge of, take into custody; take prisoner, take captive, make prisoner, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
... one room we are asking why the Government and the great experts between them cannot sail a ship. In another room we are deciding that the Government and experts shall be allowed, without trial or discussion, to immure any one's body, damn any one's soul, and dispose of unborn generations with the levity of a pagan god. We are putting the official on the throne while he is still ...
— A Miscellany of Men • G. K. Chesterton |
