ensphere means 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). Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.
Why “ensphere” is a great word
ENSPHERE — [Verb] To enclose in or as if in a sphere, or to form into a sphere. From the English prefix en- (meaning "to put into or on") + sphere (from Latin sphaera, "ball, globe"). First recorded in English use circa 1605–1612. Unlike "encircle," which suggests a two-dimensional ring, or "globular," which merely describes a shape, to ensphere is to enact a total, volumetric enclosure. It is the jeweler’s glass dome placed over a clockwork bird, the single raindrop suspended from a pine needle containing an entire inverted forest, or the private orbit two lovers create in a crowded room—a gesture of containment that implies not limitation, but completion.
Etymology
From en- + sphere.
verb
- 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).“shee whose eies enspheard
Star-light inough, t’haue made the South controll,
(Had shee beene there) the Starfull Northern Pole,”
- To form into a sphere.“Virgins of equall birth, of equall years,
Whose vertues held with thine an emulous strife,
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,”