| \ih-MYOO r\ | verb
1. to shut in; seclude or confine.
2. to enclose within walls.
| | Quotes | For nature leaves us free and untrammelled; it is we who bind ourselves confine ourselves, immure ourselves, herd ourselves into cramped and sordid quarters.
-- Plutarch (46–120 A.D.), "On Exile," Moralia, translated by Phillip H. De Lacy and Benedict Einarson, 1959 | | | | | | | | | | Origin of immure | | Immure comes from Medieval Latin immūrāre, a derivative of the noun mūrus "wall." It entered English in the late 1500s. | |
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