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Immure vs Obscure - What's the difference?

immure | obscure |

As verbs the difference between immure and obscure

is that immure is to cloister, confine, imprison: to lock up behind walls while obscure is (label) to render obscure; to darken; to make dim; to keep in the dark; to hide; to make less visible, intelligible, legible, glorious, beautiful, or illustrious.

As a noun immure

is (obsolete) a wall; an enclosure.

As an adjective obscure is

dark, faint or indistinct.

immure

English

Verb

  • To cloister, confine, imprison: to lock up behind walls.
  • * 1799 , , Elle?mere: A Novel , Volume IV, William Lane (publisher), pages 219–220:
    • The gentlemen looked at each other for a ?olution of this ?trange event, each pre?uming an order had been obtained to again immure the unfortunate Clara.
  • * 1880 , , Preface,
    • 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; so also was Lady Lytton.
  • * 1914', '', in ''The Single Hound'', republished 1924, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (introduction), '' The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson ,
    • Immured in Heaven! / What a Cell! / Let every Bondage be, / Thou sweetest of the Universe, / Like that which ravished thee!
  • * 1933 December, Albert H. Cotton, “ A Note on the Civil Remedies of Injured Consumers]”, in David F. Cavers (editor), Duke University School of Law, Law and Contemporary Problems , Volume I Number I, Duke University Press (1934), [http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/lcp1&id=75&terms=immured&collection=journals page 71:
    • This rule is followed in all common-law jurisdictions, although it was not adopted by the House of Lords until 1932, and then only with vigorous dissent, in a case where a mouse was immured in a ginger-beer bottle.
  • To put or bury within a wall.
    • John's body was immured Thursday in the mausoleum.
  • * 1906 , , The Book of Days , Volume 1, page 807,
    • The dreadful punishment of immuring persons, or burying them alive in the walls of convents, was undoubtedly sometimes resorted to by monastic communities.
  • (transitive, crystallography, and, geology, of a growing crystal) To trap or capture (an impurity);
  • * 1975 , , American Crystallographic Association, Soviet Physics, Crystallography , Volume 19, Issues 1-3, page 296,
    • On increasing the supercooling, the step starts completely immuring the impurity and v rises sharply.

    Synonyms

    * (imprison) cloister, confine, imprison, incarcerate * (bury) inter

    Derived terms

    * immured

    Related terms

    * immurement

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A wall; an enclosure.
    • (Shakespeare)

    obscure

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Dark, faint or indistinct.
  • * (Dante Alighieri), , 1, 1-2
    • I found myself in an obscure wood.
  • * Bible, Proverbs xx. 20
    • His lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
  • Hidden, out of sight or inconspicuous.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
    • The obscure bird / Clamoured the livelong night.
  • * Sir J. Davies
    • the obscure corners of the earth
  • Difficult to understand.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= The machine of a new soul , passage=The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure .}}

    Usage notes

    * The comparative obscurer and superlative obscurest, though formed by valid rules for English, are less common than more obscure' and ' most obscure .

    Synonyms

    * enigmatic * mysterious * esoteric

    Antonyms

    * clear

    Derived terms

    * obscurable * unobscurable

    Related terms

    * obscurity * obscuration

    Verb

    (obscur)
  • (label) To render obscure; to darken; to make dim; to keep in the dark; to hide; to make less visible, intelligible, legible, glorious, beautiful, or illustrious.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
    • They are all couched in a pit hard by Herne's oak, with obscured lights.
  • * (William Wake) (1657-1737)
    • There is scarce any duty which has been so obscured by the writings of learned men as this.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
    • , passage=But Richmond
  • (label) To hide, put out of sight etc.
  • * (Bill Watterson), Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat , page 62
    • I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity.
  • To conceal oneself; to hide.
  • * (Beaumont and Fletcher) (1603-1625)
    • How! There's bad news. / I must obscure , and hear it.

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