enswathe
verbUK /ɛnˈsweɪð/
Etymology From en- + swathe.
1
To swathe or envelop (someone or something), as in swaddling clothes.
- Sooner Earth / Might go round Heaven, and the strait girth of Time / Inswathe the fulness of Eternity, / Than language grasp the infinite of Love.1827–1879 (date written), Alfred Tennyson, “Part I”, in The Lover’s Tale, London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], published 1879, →OCLC, pages 34–35:
- Derived terms
- enswathement, enswather