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enwrap, inwrap, v.|ɛn-, ɪnˈræp|
[f. en-1, in- + wrap v.]
1. trans. To wrap, envelop, enfold in or with (a garment, case, or covering, coils or folds of anything); also, with the thing enveloping as subject. lit. and fig. † In early use also: To fold up (a garment).
α1382Wyclif Jer. x. 8 A tree..with siluer enwrappid. 1548Gest Pr. Masse 71 To enwrap. 1572J. Bossewell Armorie ii. 95 b, Twoo Cypres trees..enwrapped with Ivy proper. 1578Banister Hist. Man iv. 51 Membranes enwrappyng round the ioyntes. Ibid. viii. 105 They are enwrapped both with the thinne, and also the hard Membrans. 1601Holland Pliny II. 280 It ought to be applied enwrapped well in wooll. 1683A. Snape Anat. Horse iv. xxi. (1686) 188 For it enwrappeth almost all the Muscles of the Thigh. 1725–6Pope Odyss. viii. 339 Down rushed the toils, enwrapping as they lay The careless lovers. 1775R. Chandler Trav. Asia M. (1825) I. 82 The women of the Turks..when they go out, are enwrapped in white linen. 1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 144 Petals..enwrapping the stamens. 1845P. Parley's Ann. VI. 80 The body of a man..enwrapped in a shroud.
β1382Wyclif 2 Kings ii. 8 Helyas tooke his mantyll, and inwrappyde it. ― Prov. xxix. 6 The sinnende wicke man a grene shal inwrappe. 1555Eden Decades W. Ind. ii. ix. (Arb.) 132 When shee seeth her younge chekyn inwrapped in towe or flaxe. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. xxii. §6 How they [the affections] are enwrapped one within another. a1661Fuller Worthies, Wiltshire iii. 165 His Armes..three Children-heads..Inwrapped about their necks, with as many Snakes Proper. 1750G. Hughes Barbados 253 Inwrapped in sometimes ten or eleven green husky leaves.
b. transf. To wrap, enfold closely in a surrounding medium, e.g. clouds, darkness, vapour. Of the medium: To envelop. Also fig.
α1545Udall Erasm. Par. Luke (1548) xxiii. 806 Enwrapping his minde and sentence in the mistical darknesse of parables. 1563Sackville Mirr. Mag. Induct. 5 The mantels rent, wherein enwrapped been The gladsome groves. 1640Bp. Hall Rem. Wks. ii. (1660) 38 Neither can it ever see more than half the World at once; darkness the while enwraps the other. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) II. 415 The fiery meteor, enwrapt in clouds and darkness. 1848Miller First Impr. xi. (1857) 172 It stands half enwrapped in tall wood. a1849Poe E. B. Browning Wks. 1864 III. 403 A mystical something or nothing enwrapped in a fog of rhapsody.
β1590–6Spenser F.Q. (J.), Arachne..Spread her subtil net, Inwrapped in foul smoak. 1668Howe Bless. Righteous (1825) 53 And inwraps it in the blackness of darkness for ever. 1878G. Macdonald Phantastes III. xxii. 161 Inwrapt me like an odorous vapour.
c. Const. from.
a1849Poe Valentine Poems (1859) 57 Her own sweet name that nestling lies upon the page, enwrapped from every reader. 1883T. Hardy in Longm. Mag. July 254 The inevitable glooms of a straitened hard-working life occasionally enwrap him from such pleasures as he has.
2. fig.
a. To contain implicitly, involve.
1642Observ. on his Majesty's Answ. to Decl. Parl. 13 Whether this or that Doctrine enwraps the greatest Danger. 1649Roberts Clavis Bibl. 619 The benefits enwrapped in this salvation for the Church. 1882Pop. Science Monthly XXII. 148 An act which inwraps so much of irreparable loss.
b. To ‘wrap’ in slumber, trance, etc.; to absorb or engross in contemplation, thought, etc.
In some applications of this sense the pa. pple. is liable to be confused with enrapt, q.v.
α1600Fairfax Tasso xiv. xvii, Enwrapt in fond desire. 1601Shakes. Twel. N. iv. iii. 3 Though 'tis wonder that enwraps me thus, Yet 'tis not madnesse. 1629Milton Nativity 134 If such holy song Enwrap our fancy long.
β1589Greene Arcadia (1616) 41 His trance, wherein the present wonder had inwrapt him. 1641Milton Ch. Discip. ii. (1851) 68, I doe now feele my selfe inwrapt on the sodaine into those mazes and Labyrinths of dreadfull and hideous thoughts. 1836–9Dickens Sk. Boz 176/2 Too much inwrapped in the contemplation of his happiness.
†c. To involve, implicate, entangle (in danger, guilt, suffering); to involve in a common fate with another. Obs.
α1382Wyclif 1 Sam. xv. 6 Departith fro Amalech, lest perauenture I enwrappe thee with hem. 1617Collins Def. Bp. Ely i. i. 74 We should feare to be enwrapped in his danger. 1636Sanderson Serm. II. 47 And from enwrapping himself within the guilt of their transgressions. 1826E. Irving Babylon II. vi. 133 That day of wrath..fearfully enwrappeth them all in the horrors of its last hour.
β1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 97/1 They inwrapped themselues in..miserie and desolation. 1635N. R. tr. Camden's Hist. Eliz. iv. 178 His confession..inwrapped many. 1675Brooks Gold. Key Wks. 1867 V. 147 The first Adam..plunged himself into all unrighteousness, and so inwrapped himself in the curse.
Hence enˈwrapped, -ˈwrapt ppl. a.
1598Chapman Iliad i. 313 To heaven the thick fumes bore Enwrapped savours. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. xxiii. §33 Somewhat viscous and inwrapped, and not easy to turn. a1638Mede Wks. i. xliv. 250 When the inwrapped Promises were unfolded and revealed. 1868Selden's Table-t. (Arb.) Introd. 9 Their inwrapped principles may be understood in their nature. |