enniche

English

Etymology

From en- +‎ niche.

Verb

enniche (third-person singular simple present enniches, present participle enniching, simple past and past participle enniched)

1. (transitive) To place in a niche, or as in a niche.
   • 1761, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman:

     And to do justice to Slawkenbergius, he has entered a list with a stronger lance, and taken a much larger career in it, than any one man who had ever entered it before him,——and indeed, in many respects, deserves to be en-nich'd as a prototype for all writers, of voluminous works at least, to model their books by,

References

• “enniche”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.