enhearse

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inhearse

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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, [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^[1], London:
  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^[2], Boston: Roberts Brothers, page 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^[3], Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, page 23:
  Dutifully we queue
  By twosomes for each surrey cloaked in black
  To pull up and enhearse us.