单词 | enveil |
释义 | enveil, v.|ɛnˈveɪl| Also 6 enveile, envele. [f. en-1 + veil n. Cf. OF. envoiler.] trans. To cover with a veil, place a veil upon (e.g. a woman when received into a religious order). Also transf. and fig. to shroud as with a veil.
1555Fardle Facions Pref. 16 Hauyng thus with his subtilties enueiled our mindes. Ibid. ii. xii. 268 The Bisshoppe was giuen authoritie to enueile virgines, and to hallow them. 1837Foreign Q. Rev. XIX. 305 Kerner again has taken up the whole black mantle of Novalis, and enveiled himself with it. 1850Blackie æschylus II. 170 When dark night enveils the welkin. |

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