Immure

From Middle French emmurer, from Old French, from Latin immurare, from im, combining variant of in ("in"), + mÅ«rus ("wall").

Full definition of immure

1799, Mary Meeke, ElleÅ¿mere: A Novel, Volume IV, William Lane (publisher), pages 219â€“220:The gentlemen looked at each other for a Å¿olution of this Å¿trange event, each preÅ¿uming an order had been obtained to again immure the unfortunate Clara.
1880, Rosina Bulwer Lytton, , Preface,In a happy moment for the Levy-Lawson-Levis, Lady Lytton was betrayed, seized, and immured. The Editor saw his chance, and made the Metropolis ring with the outrage. Levi was saved; so also was Lady Lytton.
1914, Emily Dickinson, , in The Single Hound, republished 1924, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (introduction), The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson,Immured in Heaven!
What a Cell!
Let every Bondage be,
Thou sweetest of the Universe,
Like that which ravished thee!
1933 December, Albert H. Cotton, â€œA Note on the Civil Remedies of Injured Consumersâ€, in David F. Cavers (editor), Duke University School of Law, Law and Contemporary Problems, Volume I Number I, Duke University Press (1934), page 71:This rule is followed in all common-law jurisdictions, although it was not adopted by the House of Lords until 1932, and then only with vigorous dissent, in a case where a mouse was immured in a ginger-beer bottle.

(transitive) To put or bury within a wall.John's body was immured Thursday in the mausoleum.

1906, Robert Chambers, The Book of Days, Volume 1, immuring|immured%22&dq=%22immures|immuring|immured%22&hl=en&ei=nl9QTqrQEKbimAWopszYBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCgQ6AEwADge page 807,The dreadful punishment of immuring persons, or burying them alive in the walls of convents, was undoubtedly sometimes resorted to by monastic communities.

(transitive, crystallography and geology, of a growing crystal) To trap or capture (an impurity); chiefly in the participial adjective immured and gerund or gerundial noun immuring.

1975, American Institute of Physics, American Crystallographic Association, Soviet Physics, Crystallography, Volume 19, Issues 1-3, immuring|immured%22&dq=%22immures|immuring|immured%22&hl=en&ei=-VxQTqIMp9-YBZfIlcYG&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CEEQ6AEwBjgU page 296,On increasing the supercooling, the step starts completely immuring the impurity and $v$ rises sharply.

(plural immures)