单词 | re-enfold |
释义 | re-enfoldv. transitive. To enfold again. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > wrap [verb (transitive)] > enfold or envelop > again re-enfold1610 re-envelop1611 repaper1785 1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xii. xx. 460 Admitted to the sight of God..to leaue it againe at length, and bee re-infolded [L. implicari] in mortall misery. 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Rinuolta,..re-infolded or re-inwrapped. 1832 Morning Watch Sept. 6 The germ and the promise of all that the Gospel unfolds..being expanded like the rose of Sharon in the person of our Immanuel..cannot again be compressed into the bud, or re-enfolded in the germ. a1856 S. Brown Lect. Atomic Theory (1858) I. 55 The endless variety of forms is the varied phenomenal manifestation of one Chaos, which must therefore be capable of unfolding and again re-infolding its parts independently of external reaction. 1923 B. Johnson Dog in House in As I was Saying 181 I lifted him [sc. a puppy] in my arms again,..intensely conscious of an aroused public amusement as I struggled to reënfold this or that hairy protruding tentacle. 1958 S. Townsend in tr. Marcel Proust on Art & Lit. 9 He certainly discarded the wrap when he went out, but it was as certainly waiting to reinfold him when he returned home. 1995 M. Amis Information (1996) 406 When you've been away, and you come home again, your life reenfolds you. Derivatives re-enˈfolding n. (also reinfolding) ΚΠ 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Ripiegatura, a reinfolding, a reinwraping. 1967 R. R. Ruether Church against Itself xi. 211 The re-enfolding of eschatology amid history is possible only when the false dichotomy of institutionalised church and world is broken apart. 1994 October 67 34 This reinfolding inward..this reprivatization, is all made possible, of course, by technology. 2004 S. Connor Bk. of Skin vi. 175 The story anticipates this act of re-enfolding. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1610 |
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