enflesh

English

Etymology

From en- +‎ flesh.

Verb

enflesh (third-person singular simple present enfleshes, present participle enfleshing, simple past and past participle enfleshed)

1. (transitive) To envelop or supply with flesh.
   • 1598, John Florio, “Enflesh”, in A Worlde of Words, or Most Copious, and Exact Dictionarie in Italian and English, […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield for Edw[ard] Blount, →OCLC:

     Vices which are […] enfleshed in him.

   • 2023, Shelley Lynn Tremain, The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability, page 1936:

     Accordingly, ablenationalism when taken to this extreme, perpetuated through the war on drugs and its financial and enfleshed circulation of violence, reconfigures what Puar (2017) calls the "right to maim."

Derived terms

• enfleshment

References

• “enflesh”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• fleshen