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Webster 1913 Edition
Enisled
En-isled′
,p.
Adj.
Placed alone or apart, as if on an island; severed, as an island.
[R.]
“In the sea of life enisled.” M. Arnold.
Definition 2024
enisled
enisled
English
Adjective
enisled (not comparable)
- Placed alone or apart, as if on an island.
- 1852, Matthew Arnold, To Marguerite: Continued:
- YES! in the sea of life enisl’d, / With echoing straits between us thrown, / Dotting the shoreless watery wild, / We mortal millions live alone.
- 2007, W. J. Thomas Mitchell, The Late Derrida, page 58:
- For Derrida, no isthmus, no bridge, no road, no communication or transfer, connects or can ever connect my enisled self to other selves.
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Verb
enisled
- simple past tense and past participle of enisle