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encowl

verb · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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verb

Meaning 1

To clothe (as) in a cowl; to make (someone) a monk.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • 1655, anonymous poem from the collection The Marrow of Compliments, in A. H. Bullen (ed.), Speculum Amantis, London, 1889, p. 98, And is’t not brave when summer’s robes Have all the fields encowled To have a green gown on the grass And wear it uncontroul’d?

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Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From en- + cowl.