Word Meanings - ENSHRINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To inclose in a shrine or chest; hence, to preserve or cherish as something sacred; as, to enshrine something in memory. We will enshrine it as holy relic. Massinger.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ENSHRINE)

• Consecrate
• Dedicate
• devote
• enshrine
• hallow
• sanctify
• Embalm
• Conserve
• preserve
• treasure
• store
• consecrate
• Hallow
• venerate
• reverence
• dedicate
• Incase
• Inclose
• impanel
• board
• batten
• Treasure Hoard
• accumulate
• save
• value
• idolize

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ENSHRINE)

• Scatter
• squander
• dissipate
• disregard
• disesteem
• prostitute
• waste
• betray
• Miscompute
• misestimate
• vilipend
• underrate
• undervalue
• underestimate
• despise
• contemn
• cheapen
• vilify

Related words: (words related to ENSHRINE)

• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• STORER
  One who lays up or forms a store.
• HALLOW
  To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
• IMPANELMENT
  The act or process of impaneling, or the state of being impaneled.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• CONSECRATE
  Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred. They were assembled in that consecrate place. Bacon.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• MISCOMPUTE
  To compute erroneously. Sir T. Browne.
• IDOLIZE
  1. To make an idol of; to pay idolatrous worship to; as, to idolize the sacred bull in Egypt. 2. To love to excess; to love or reverence to adoration; as, to idolize gold, children, a hero.
• ACCUMULATE
  To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money. Syn. -- To collect; pile up; store; amass; gather; aggregate; heap together; hoard.
• INCASEMENT
  1. The act or process of inclosing with a case, or the state of being incased. 2. That which forms a case, covering, or inclosure.
• TREASURER
  One who has the care of a treasure or treasure or treasury; an officer who receives the public money arising from taxes and duties, or other sources of revenue, takes charge of the same, and disburses it upon orders made by the proper authority;
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• SQUANDER
  scatter, to squander, Prov. E. swatter, Dan. sqvatte, Sw. sqvätta to squirt, sqvättra to squander, Icel. skvetta to squirt out, to throw 1. To scatter; to disperse. Our squandered troops he rallies. Dryden. 2. To spend lavishly or profusely;
• DISESTEEMER
  One who disesteems. Boyle.
• TREASURERSHIP
  The office of treasurer.
• BATTENING
  Furring done with small pieces nailed directly upon the wall.
• ENSHRINE
  To inclose in a shrine or chest; hence, to preserve or cherish as something sacred; as, to enshrine something in memory. We will enshrine it as holy relic. Massinger.
• INCLOSER
  One who, or that which, incloses; one who fences off land from common grounds.
• HOARDING
  A screen of boards inclosing a house and materials while builders are at work. Posted on every dead wall and hoarding. London Graphic. 2. A fence, barrier, or cover, inclosing, surrounding, or concealing something. The whole arrangement
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• INDEVOTE
  Not devoted. Bentley. Clarendon.
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• SIDEBOARD
  A piece of dining-room furniture having compartments and shelves for keeping or displaying articles of table service. At a stately sideboard, by the wine, That fragrant smell diffused. Milton.
• WEATHERBOARDING
  The covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc. Boards adapted or intended for such use.
• SPRINGBOARD
  An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising.
• DECONSECRATE
  To deprive of sacredness; to secularize. -- De*con`se*cra"tion, n.
• CHESSBOARD
  The board used in the game of chess, having eight rows of alternate light and dark squares, eight in each row. See Checkerboard. Note: The chessboard and the checkerboard are alike.
• ARCHTREASURER
  A chief treasurer. Specifically, the great treasurer of the German empire.
• UPHOARD
  To hoard up. Shak.