enfouldered

English

Etymology

From en- +‎ + Old French fouldre (“lightning”), from Latin fulgur (“lightning”), fulgere (“to flash”), +‎ -ed.

Adjective

enfouldered (not comparable)

1. (poetic) Mixed with lightning or fire.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     With foul enfouldred smoke and flashing fire

   • c. 1933-1934, Hugh MacDiarmid, On a Raised Beach

     Glaucous, hoar, enfouldered, cyathiform,
     Making mere faculae of the sun and moon […]

   • 2001, Walter Tonetto, Exiled in Language:

     That there should be no proper conductor guiding it towards a source of light that might really aid us to see, makes the whole piece appear shaded by error, ombres chinoises; but shadow though there be, it does nothing to remove the enfouldered crack from the wall, and the charred signature such power always leaves behind.