心一點零-B12

Word of the Day for Monday September 19, 2005

immure \ih-MYUR\, transitive verb:
1. To enclose within walls, or as if within walls; hence, to
shut up; to imprison; to incarcerate.
2. To build into a wall.
3. To entomb in a wall. (監禁，禁錮)

Not surprisingly, Sally shuddered at the thought of being
immured in the black cave, to die slowly and hopelessly,
far below the sunny hillside.
--Peter Pierce, "The Fiction of Gabrielle Lord," Australian
Literary Studies, October 1999

True, there was a Mughal emperor in Delhi until 1857, but
he was emperor in name only, the shadow of a memory,
described by Lord Macaulay as 'a mock sovereign immured in
a gorgeous state prison'.
--Anthony Read, [1]The Proudest Day

When I tried to think clearly about this, I felt that my
mind was immured, that it couldn't expand in any direction.
--Andrew Solomon, [2]The Noonday Demon

Immured by privilege in a way of life that offered little
scope, army wives were often enfeebled by boredom.
--Frances Spalding, [3]Duncan Grant: A Biography