engild
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]engild (third-person singular simple present engilds, present participle engilding, simple past and past participle engilded)
- (transitive) To gild; to make splendid.
- c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
- Fair Helena, who most engilds the night.
References
[edit]- “engild”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.