(transitive) To place in a sphere; to surround in all directions (as if) by a sphere (one of the concentric hollow transparent globes formerly believed to rotate around the Earth).
c. 1624, George Chapman (translator), “Hymn to Hermes” by Homer in The Hymns of Homer; The Batrachomyomachia; and Two Original Poetical Hymns, Chistnick: C. Whittingham, 1818, p. 64,
His ample shoulders in a cloud enspher’d
Of fiery crimson.
1634, John Milton, Comus, London: Humphrey Robinson, 1637, p. 1,
Before the starrie threshold of Ioves Court
My mansion is, where those immortall shapes
Of bright aëreall Spirits live insphear’d
In Regions mild of calme and serene aire,
(transitive) To form into a sphere.
1938, T. F. Higham (translator), Song 142 (“The Moon”) by Sappho, in The Oxford Book of Greek Verse in Translation, Oxford University Press, p. 140,
Bright stars, around the fair Selênê peering,
No more their beauty to the night discover
When she, at full, her silver light ensphering,
Floods the world over.
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