(v. t.) To inclose whithin walls, or as within walls; hence, to shut up; to imprison; to incarcerate.
(n.) A wall; an inclosure.
Example Sentences:
(1) Capillaries and cells were "immured" with fibrillary substance which was produced by the tumour cells themselves.
(2) At the same time, the Observer believes Mr Cameron's renowned lack of attention to detail, and a casual disregard for consequences (perhaps his wealth has immured him from the habit), means that the very values that the big society is intended to inculcate and cherish are being rapidly undermined, widening inequality and accelerating social injustice.
(3) It is literally an immuring within prison walls – on the grounds, not of credible public danger, but of imputed morality, or revenge (“a just desert”).
(4) The locally ill-defined tumor in the fatty tissue of the renal pelvis immured small arteries and veins as well as an interlobar artery, and caused damage to the vascular walls accompanied by the development of aneurysm, perforation and fistulation into the renal pelvis, by mechanisms open to various pathogenetic interpretations.
(5) For the cases when granulation does not lead to the formation of a membrane or when the membrane growth is too slow, the present author developed a method of immuring a foreign body - a silk thread - into the granulation layer for as long as 6 to 8 days.
(6) Nevertheless, progressing fibrosis has a considerable influence on cell shape as the surrounded cell complexes are quasi immured, and their supply and transport procedures impaired.
(7) Almost all of his work was painted for king and court and stayed exactly where it was made, long after his death in 1660, immured in the Spanish royal palaces.
(8) After the sprays become immured in dentine matrix, the stems are removed.
(9) The much-doubted goalkeeper Paul Robinson then organised a defensive wall before, in effect, leaving himself immured by standing unsighted directly behind it.
(10) (c) The recent integrative position in which instead of the systems' self-immured isolation or the nonspecifics' paralyzing equivalence of all therapies, a synthesis of specific approaches within a larger nonspecific theory or practical strategy is attempted.
Immured
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Immure
Example Sentences:
(1) Capillaries and cells were "immured" with fibrillary substance which was produced by the tumour cells themselves.
(2) At the same time, the Observer believes Mr Cameron's renowned lack of attention to detail, and a casual disregard for consequences (perhaps his wealth has immured him from the habit), means that the very values that the big society is intended to inculcate and cherish are being rapidly undermined, widening inequality and accelerating social injustice.
(3) It is literally an immuring within prison walls – on the grounds, not of credible public danger, but of imputed morality, or revenge (“a just desert”).
(4) The locally ill-defined tumor in the fatty tissue of the renal pelvis immured small arteries and veins as well as an interlobar artery, and caused damage to the vascular walls accompanied by the development of aneurysm, perforation and fistulation into the renal pelvis, by mechanisms open to various pathogenetic interpretations.
(5) For the cases when granulation does not lead to the formation of a membrane or when the membrane growth is too slow, the present author developed a method of immuring a foreign body - a silk thread - into the granulation layer for as long as 6 to 8 days.
(6) Nevertheless, progressing fibrosis has a considerable influence on cell shape as the surrounded cell complexes are quasi immured, and their supply and transport procedures impaired.
(7) Almost all of his work was painted for king and court and stayed exactly where it was made, long after his death in 1660, immured in the Spanish royal palaces.
(8) After the sprays become immured in dentine matrix, the stems are removed.
(9) The much-doubted goalkeeper Paul Robinson then organised a defensive wall before, in effect, leaving himself immured by standing unsighted directly behind it.
(10) (c) The recent integrative position in which instead of the systems' self-immured isolation or the nonspecifics' paralyzing equivalence of all therapies, a synthesis of specific approaches within a larger nonspecific theory or practical strategy is attempted.