inearth, v.
(ɪˈnɜːθ)
[f. in-1 + earth n. Cf. med.L. interrāre, F. enterrer.]
1. trans. To bury in the earth, to inter. Chiefly poetical.
| 1801 Southey Thalaba i. xxii. 20 The Ethiop..Detects the ebony..deep-inearth'd. 1805 ― Madoc iii. Poet. Wks. (1853) 320/2 Refusing rest, Till I had seen in holy ground inearth'd My poor lost brother. 1849 H. Mayo Pop. Superst. (1851) 54 The body..that had been rudely inearthed after violent death. 1880 Contemp. Rev. Mar. 431 The Founder and his mate Were here inearthed. |
2. To render ‘earthy’ or earthly. rare.
| 1863 Pusey Oxford Lenten Serm. ix. 12 What in us was lofty, lowered: what was in the image of the heavenly, inearthed. |