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wrapped, ppl. a. and pa. pple.|ræpt|
Also 7– wrapt.
[f. wrap v. + -ed1.]
I.
1. Concealed, covered, hidden.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. x. iv. (Bodl. MS.), Fuyre..beschyneþ alle þinges wiþ his..wrapped [L. circumvelatus] briȝtenes. 1601Chester Love's Mart., etc. (1878) 125 Ile be partener Of thy harts wrapped sorrow more hereafter.
2. With up:
a. Involved, complicated; couched in complex, covert, or vague terms.
1787Jefferson Writ. (1853) II. 304, I have analyzed these declarations, because being somewhat wrapped up in their expressions, their full import might escape, on a transient reading. 1896Daily News 13 Jan. 7/1 It is the way of the ‘Temps’ to speak in wrapped-up language, but throughout..the crisis its utterances have been even more than usually enigmatical. 1898Ibid. 14 Nov. 5/2 The beauty of the Fashoda Blue Book was the absence..of wrapped up phrases.
b. Muffled up in, covered up with, a wrap or enveloping garment.
1793F. Burney Let. 24 Feb. (1972) II. 26, I live a Wrapt up Invalide, close to the Fire side. 1852Dickens Bleak Ho. ii, The shining figure of a wrapped-up man. 1901Westm. Gaz. 8 June 1/3 The wrapped-up figure on a pedestal.
c. Marked or characterized by absorbed attention. (Cf. 6.)
1884Pall Mall G. 8 Nov. 4/1 His incapacity to hear..gives him a more wrapped up air than the brother. 1893Daily News 27 June 6/3 Faces wore a ‘wrapped up’ expression, and voices were hard and tuneless.
3. Drawn together, fashioned, made, or constructed by wrapping or twining.
1820Keats Cap and Bells xxv, With hasty steps, wrapp'd cloak, and solemn looks..[he] upon his errand sallies. 1837J. Kirkbride Northern Angler 2 The wrapt hackle flies are generally most esteemed in this part of the country. 1907C. Hill-Tout Brit. N. Amer., Far West vi. 109 Woven basketry..embraces by far the greater number of basket forms, and includes..such [kinds] as wicker-work, wrapped-work, twilled-work.
4. Enclosed in a wrapping; spec. prepackaged.
1957M. Summerton Sunset Hour xiii. 186 The loaf of wrapped bread. 1963L. Deighton Horse under Water vi. 31 Plastic spoons and large wrapped sugar segments. 1976Times 13 Aug. 2/6 The familiar wrapped and sliced white loaf still accounts for more than half of bread sales. 1984C. Curzon Masks & Faces viii. 90 He fetched the wrapped loaf and filled the toaster.
II. In predicative use.
5. a. Deeply interested, centred or absorbed, in a person or thing.
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. V, 34 b, Benedict the .xiii...was wrapped in his owne folishe and fantastical opinion. 1581Marbeck Bk. of Notes 599 Him that is wrapped in the businesse of this world. 1816Byron Ch. Har. iii. cxv, My daughter!.. I see thee not, I hear thee not, but none Can be so wrapt in thee. 1848Dickens Dombey xxxv, Whether Mr. Dombey, wrapped in his own greatness, was at all aware of this or no.
b. Freq. with up. † Also const. with (= in).
In very frequent use from c 1820.
(a)1699Boyer Fr. Dict. ii, I am so wrapt up with him, je l'aime si éperdûment. 1704F. Fuller Med. Gymn. (1705) 142 How much soever some People may be Rapt up with their Sal Volatile. 1784P. Wright New Bk. Martyrs 794/2 King James was..so wrapt up with a conceit, that he had now conquered the whole nation.
(b)1709Steele Tatler No. 139 ⁋5 Being wrapped up in the safety of my old age. 1711Addison Spect. No. 105 ⁋6 The State-Pedant is wrapt up in News. 1776Foote Bankrupt i. 3 His whole soul is wrapt up in Miss Lydia. 1784P. Wright New Bk. Martyrs 805/1, I want words to express it, he was like one wrapped up in heaven. 1806–7J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life (1826) xvi. iii, Before you are yet sufficiently wrapped up in the study. 1851G. Brimley Ess., Wordsw. 166 His heart was wrapped up in his wife and sister. 1880J. Payn Confid. Agent I. 31, I like a man to be wrapped up in his own calling.
c. wrapped (up) in, entirely associated or bound up with; quite dependent on; involved in.
1648J. Beaumont Psyche v. 131 O then, first for your own illustrious sake, And next, for Us wrapp'd up in you, beware Of his Designs in time. 1711Addison Spect. No. 123 ⁋4 His young Wife (in whom all his Happiness was wrapt up) died. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) II. 157 He was the only child.., and..the lives of his parents were wrapt up in him. 1847James Convict I. 108, I put mine [sc. happiness] under your guardianship also, for mine is wrapped up in yours. 1859R. Piddington Last of Cavaliers II. 69 My mother's whole life is wrapped in him. 1892J. Tait Mind in Matter (ed. 3) 167 Wrapped up in the mysterious nature of Self-existence, is the equally mysterious power of communicating existence.
6. Absorbed or engrossed in thought, contemplation, etc. Also in earlier use with up.
Perhaps partly suggested by rapt pa. pple. 4.
1601Shakes. All's Well v. iii. 128, I am wrap'd in dismall thinkings. 1634Milton Comus 546, I..began Wrapt in a pleasing fit of melancholy To meditate my rural minstrelsie. 1726Swift Gulliver iii. ii, He is always..wrapped up in cogitation. 1751Smollett Per. Pic. xiii, He seemed to be wrapped up in profound contemplation. 1771Beattie Minstrel i. xix. 1 Where the stripling, wrapt in wonder, roves. 1809Malkin Gil Blas vii. i. ⁋2, I found..Don Cæsar just as much wrapped up..in the contemplation of the happy couple. 1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede ii, Some..were resting..with their eyes closed, as if wrapt in prayer or meditation. 1894Baring-Gould Kitty Alone II. 162 The girl stood wrapped in delight.
Hence † ˈwrappedly adv. intricately. Obs.—0
1589Rider Bibl. Scholast. 1685 Wrappedly, contorte. 1647Hexham i. s.v. |