Meanings (ES + gloss)
encerrar
To cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls.
In a happy moment for the Levy-Lawson-Levis, Lady Lytton was betrayed, seized, and immured. The Editor saw his chance, and made the Metropolis ring with the outrage. Levi was saved…
[I]n the reign of Henry the Second, a body happening, by chance, to be dug up near Glastonbury Abbey, without any symptoms of putrefaction or decay, the Welch, the descendants of t…
emparedar • encerrar
To put or bury within a wall.
John's body was immured Thursday in the mausoleum.
The dreadful punishment of immuring persons, or burying them alive in the walls of convents, was undoubtedly sometimes resorted to by monastic communities.