encowl
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[edit]encowl (third-person singular simple present encowls, present participle encowling, simple past and past participle encowled)
- (transitive) To clothe (as) in a cowl; to make (someone) a monk.
- 1622, Michael Drayton, The Second Part, or a Continuance of Poly-Olbion[1], London: John Marriott, et al, Song 24, p. 96:
- King Alfred that his Christ he might more surely hold,
Left his Northumbrian Crowne, and soone became encould,
- 1655, anonymous poem from the collection The Marrow of Compliments, in A. H. Bullen (ed.), Speculum Amantis, London, 1889, p. 98,[2]
- 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?