envein

English

Etymology

From en- +‎ vein.

Verb

envein (third-person singular simple present enveins, present participle enveining, simple past and past participle enveined)

1. (uncommon, literary) To pass throughout as, or like, veins (compare vasculate).
   • 2009 04, Richard Leviton, Santa Fe Light, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 482:

     The petals are interwoven with nadis, minute nerve and force channels; some clairvoyants say the nadis create the petal shapes, others than they envein them.

   • 2021 August 30, Bruce Merritt, Moon Gate, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:

     Regal virtues envein the plumes of its avian composure, evinced in its lordly, though companionable, aplomb; […]

   • 2024, N. Isar, “Elemental States of Image: Elan, Pulsion, Rapt, Rupture, Caesura, and Syncopation”, in Phenomenology, New Materialism, and Advances in the Pulsatile Imaginary:

     […] As Fédida comments, an “[a]nimist animalisation” passes through the composition of lines, and by such a novel “technique” the image “enveins” [fibrille]⁷⁸ its […]