enhearse

• inhearse

en- +‎ hearse

enhearse (third-person singular simple present enhearses, present participle enhearsing, simple past and past participle enhearsed)

1. (transitive) To place into, or as if into, a hearse or coffin.
   • c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act IV, Scene 7,

     Doubtless he would have made a noble knight;

     See, where he lies inhearsed in the arms

     Of the most bloody nurser of his harms!

   • 1617, Richard Brathwait, A Solemne Joviall Disputation, London, p. ,

     Enhearse thy sable soule in lasting feares;

     Enroule thy selfe amongst all mourners chiefe:

   • 1885, Jean Ingelow, “Speranza” in Poems of the Old Days and the New, Boston: Roberts Brothers, p. 77,

     Who, even that might, would dwell for ever pent

     In this fair frame that doth the spirit inhearse,

   • 2002, X. J. Kennedy, “Mustafa Ferrari” in The Lords of Misrule, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, p. 23,

     Dutifully we queue

     By twosomes for each surrey cloaked in black

     To pull up and enhearse us.