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inweave, enweave, v.|ɪnˈwiːv|
Pa. tense -wove. Pa. pple. -woven (also 7 -weav'd, 8–9 -wove).
[f. in-1 (or in-2), en-1 + weave v.; cf. Du. inweven, G. einweben, Da. indvæve, Sw. inväfva, and L. intexĕre. Chiefly used in pa. pple.]
1. trans. To weave in; to weave (threads or materials) in, so as to form a web or tissue; to weave (things) together, or one thing with another; to interweave. Also fig.
1578Banister Hist. Man v. 70 This is with two kindes of Fibres intertexed, or enwouen. 1652Benlowes Theoph. xii. xv, When two enweav'd are in one high desire They feel like Angels, mutuall fire. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. i. iii, A living link in that Tissue of History, which inweaves all Being. 1846Ruskin Mod. Paint. I. i. i. vi. §4. 26 All our moral feelings are so inwoven with our intellectual powers, that [etc.]. a1859J. A. James in Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. cxix. 126 Infidelity..has endeavoured to enweave itself with science. 1876T. Hardy Ethelberta (1890) 259 The newly-lit lamps on the quay, and the evening glow shining over the river, inwove their harmonious rays as the warp and woof of one lustrous tissue.
2. To insert or introduce (a thread, pattern, or material) into a fabric which is being woven; to insert (one thing) in or into another by weaving in or entwining. Const. in, into (among, through).
1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. v. 266 Tua lynes..Wouen in threid of golde, to quhilkes Jngeniouslie ar coupled the Lillies inwouen, inwounde, and drawin throuch, as it war. 1670Milton Hist. Eng. vi. Wks. (1847) 560/2 The royal standard, wherin the figure of a man fighting was inwoven with gold and precious stones. 1725Pope Odyss. ix. 513 In his deep fleece my grasping hands I lock, And fast beneath, in woolly curls inwove, There cling implicit. 1797T. Park Sonn. 16 On every leaf enweave a druid-spell. 1876Rock Text. Fabr. i. 5 A vast number of figures and animals inwoven into its fabric.
b. fig. with ref. to immaterial things, words, incidents in a story, etc.
a1628F. Grevil Poems ii. (1633) 66 Closely to be inweau'd in euery heart. a1656Ussher Power Princes ii. (1683) 160 Cæsar heretofore did so embosom and enweaue himselfe into the Commonwealth. 1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. 219 To inweave in a poem of the loftiest style..such minute matters of fact. 1869Goulburn Purs. Holiness v. 43 A study which inweaves the Word into the daily life of the Christian.
3. To combine, furnish, decorate, etc. with something inserted or entwined.
1591Spenser Muiopotmos 299 A faire border wrought of sundrie flowres, Enwoven with an yvie-winding trayle. 1717tr. Ovid's Met., Arachne 209 Festoons of flow'rs inwove with ivy shine. 1835Willis Pencillings II. xlvii. 71 Gauze-like fabrics inwoven with flowers of silver.
4. To form by weaving or plaiting. rare.
1667Milton P.L. iii. 352 Down they cast Thir Crowns inwove with Amarant and Gold. 1864Neale Seaton. Poems 21 The Crown inwove with twisted Thorn. 1887Bowen Virg. æneid v. 308 Three winners receive Prizes beyond, and of olive pale their garlands inweave.
Hence in-, enˈweavement. rare.
1842Tait's Mag. IX. 606 Mind with mind it links in long Enweavement round the world. |