"ensphere" meaning in English

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          "text": "shee whose eies enspheard\nStar-light inough, t’haue made the South controll,\n(Had shee beene there) the Starfull Northern Pole,",
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          "text": "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,\nHis ample shoulders in a cloud enspher’d\nOf fiery crimson."
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          "text": "1634, John Milton, Comus, London: Humphrey Robinson, 1637, p. 1,\nBefore the starrie threshold of Ioves Court\nMy mansion is, where those immortall shapes\nOf bright aëreall Spirits live insphear’d\nIn Regions mild of calme and serene aire,"
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          "text": "Virgins of equall birth, [...] / Shall draw thy picture, and record thy life; / One ſhall enſphere thine eyes, another ſhall / Impearl thy teeth[,] a third thy white and ſmall / Hand ſhall beſnow, a fourth incarnadine / Thy roſie cheek, [...]",
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          "ref": "1895, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, Part 2, Chapter 3:",
          "text": "The girl for whom he was beginning to nourish an extraordinary tenderness was at this time ensphered by the same harmonies [those of the church choir and organ] as those which floated into his ears; and the thought was a delight to him.",
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          "text": "It was afternoon […] which meant that all the ample, high, soft-blue leather desks along the spokes of the great wheel that radiated from the Superintendent’s desk, ensphered by the Catalogue, were taken, and he had to be content with one of the minimal flat triangular ends of the late-come segments inserted between the spokes.",
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        "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)."
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        "(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)."
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        "(transitive) To form into a sphere."
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