enswatheinswathev.
/ᵻnˈsweɪð/, /ɛnˈsweɪð/, U.S. /ənˈswɑð/, /ɛnˈswɑð/ a. transitive. To bind or wrap in a swathe or bandage. Also reflexive.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > wrap [verb (transitive)] > swathe
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1609 W. Shakespeare Louers Complaint in Sonnets sig. K2 Letters sadly pend in blood,..Enswath'd and seald to curious secrecy.
1830 H. N. Coleridge Introd. Greek Poets 196 Then did they bathe thee in a fresh, pure stream..and enswath'd thy limbs In a white robe.
1854 T. De Quincey Last Days Kant (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay III. 117 Nesting and enswathing himself in the bedclothes.
b. transferred and figurative.
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1830 T. Aird in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 821 A lucid air enswathed her head.
1842 Ld. Tennyson St. Simeon Stylites in Poems (new ed.) II. 56 Inswath'd sometimes in wandering mist.
1857 J. Pulsford Quiet Hours 174 Dense vapours were enswathing the soul.
1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country iv. 235 Your smile enswathes me in beatitude.
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