Pronounced: sigh-nuh-JET-ik, adj
Notes: I don’t know this word; I thought maybe it was related to swans
Yesterday’s word
The word immure means
- to enclose within or as if within walls
- imprison
- to build into a wall; especially – to entomb in a wall
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1500s
Background / Comments
Our word comes from the Latin words in- (in; within) and murus (wall); thus, the literally meaning is “to wall in” or “to enclose with a wall”. It has been extended to mean “to imprison” and “to entomb”, and has even extended to meanings of “to shut in” or “to confine”.
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