ensky

[en-skahy]

verb (used with object)

enskied, enskyed, enskying. 

1. to place in or as if in the heavens; exalt.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ensky¹

First recorded in 1595–1605; en- ¹ + sky

Example Sentences

To her right a green hillside—each blade of grass, each flower, each tuft of heath, enskied, transfigured by the broad light that poured across it from the hidden west.

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She was no longer a pretty thing to be kissed, no longer even a handsome murderess; she was become a heroine, a martyr, a thing enskied and sainted.

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In so exalted a station he would be "enskied and sainted."

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I hold you as a thing enskyed, and sainted; By your renouncement an immortal spirit, And to be talked with in sincerity, As with a saint.

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Flags, in that wind, are like nations enskied.

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