ensky \in-SKYE\ verb : exalt
Example sentence: "Her first appearance in evening dress was a revelation to me; she was my idol, enskied and sacred." (Frank Harris, _My Life and Loves_)
Did you know? Someone who has been enskied has been raised, figuratively, as high as the sky. The "en-" prefix indicates putting something or someone into or on whatever the second part of the word indicates -- in this case, the sky. Lots of words have been formed this way; some of them are quite familiar ("enthrone," "entrap"), whereas others are as high-flown as "ensky." "Enisle," for example, means "to put someone on an island," or, figuratively, "to isolate someone." "Enwomb" means "to shut one up as if in a womb." The very first, and most famous, use of "ensky" occurs in Shakespeare's _Measure for Measure_, when Lucio tells Isabella, a novice in a convent, "I hold you as a thing enskied and sainted."
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