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单词 enfold
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enfoldn.

Etymology: < enfold v.1
Obsolete.
A convolution (of the brain or intestines).
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the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [noun]
rundlec1300
waif1513
enwrapping1543
convolution1545
entrail?a1549
wreath1555
roundness1572
spire1572
rolling1576
enfold1578
infold1578
obvolution1578
gyre1590
whorl1592
enfoldment1593
twine1600
turn1625
volume1646
volution1752
swirl1786
coil1805
swirling1825
convolute1846
whirl1862
enfolding1873
snaking1888
1578 J. Banister Hist. Man v. f. 71v The intrels..are circunduced into diuers, and many enfoldes, and turnynges.
1578 J. Banister Hist. Man viii. 99v The brayne..seemeth to shew many infoldes and turnynges.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

enfoldinfoldv.1

/ɛnˈfəʊld//ɪnˈfəʊld/
Forms: Also 1600s infould. past participle 1600s infold, 1800s enfolden.
Etymology: < en- prefix1, in- prefix1 + fold n.3, fold v.1
To put into a fold, or within folds.
1.
a. transitive. To wrap up, envelop in or with a garment, or a surrounding medium of any kind. Also with the garment, etc. as subject.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > wrap [verb (transitive)] > enfold or envelop > in a surrounding medium
belapc1175
take?a1300
wrapa1382
environa1393
enumberc1400
involvea1420
enfoldc1425
bewrapa1430
mantlec1450
envelop1474
enwrap1545
imply1590
circumvolve1607
circumfuse1608
becloaka1618
swathe1624
gird1645
wrap1656
velope1722
steep1798
bathe1816
cloak1818
impall1852
atmosphere1881
kirtle1888
α.
1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) I. 192 Seed single..enfolded in the cup.
1846 R. C. Trench Notes Miracles xvi. 268 The oak is enfolded in the acorn.
1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest III. 34 The royal robes in which the body had been enfolded were borne away.
β. c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 8 Many to ynfoldeyn and many with hym to adde.1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice ii. vii. 69 Guilded timber [mod. edd. tombs] doe wormes infold . View more context for this quotation1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 175 Even as..the white of the Egge comprehendeth the yolke, so that first intelligible world infoldeth the second.1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 111 The Silke-wormes..infold themselves in a piece of silk thei weave of an ovall forme and yellow color.1647 H. More Philos. Poems iv. xxxvi She in the body was infold, Of this low life.1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) i. xx. 52 Two Membranes..infolding the whole bladder.1713 A. Pope Windsor-Forest 17 The Pearly Shell [shall] its lucid Globe infold.1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey I. iii. 540 Artist divine, whose skilful hands infold The victim's horn with circumfusile gold.1728 E. Young Love of Fame v, in Wks. (1757) I. 137 Gay rainbow silks her mellow charms infold.1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust II. ii. ii. 126 Cast o'er The knight your magic mantle, and infold him!
b. figurative.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > wrap [verb (transitive)] > enfold or envelop
befolda1000
umbefold14..
foldc1394
umbeclipa1395
involvea1420
overfold?1440
warp1513
overroll1548
encompass1553
invest1578
immantle1585
enrol1590
imply1590
circumvest1599
circumvestite1599
enfold1599
convolve1601
shadow1608
overlapc1612
enwreathe1620
obvele1654
obside1695
integument1883
the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > care for, protect, or have charge of [verb (transitive)] > enfold in protective care
shadowa1300
brood1571
enfolda1711
fold1826
α.
1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge Ep. Ded. The kindness..is wont to be enfolded mainly within the rank or stock..of the same.
a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo in Wks. (1721) III. 319 All Plants..A confluential Loveliness enfold.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Witch of Atlas ii, in Posthumous Poems (1824) 29 She lay enfolden In the warm shadow of her loveliness.
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxiv. 83 His love enfolded her childish heart with more than mortal tenderness.
β. 1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iii. iii. 73 Vnlesse the breath of hartsicke grones, Myst-like infold me from the search of eyes. View more context for this quotation1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. Pref. 1 That book, within whose sacred context all wisdome is infolded.1867 G. MacDonald Poems 58 Night infolds the day.
2. To encompass, encircle; to clasp, embrace. Also figurative.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surrounding > surround or lie around [verb (transitive)]
befong971
beclipc1000
begoc1000
belieOE
bestandc1000
to go about ——OE
umbegangc1200
behema1250
befallc1275
berunc1275
girdc1290
bihalvena1300
umlapa1300
umlaya1300
umlouka1300
umbegoc1300
belayc1320
halsea1340
enclose1340
umbelapa1350
embracec1360
betrendc1374
circlec1374
umbecasta1375
to give about1382
environa1393
umbeclipa1395
compassa1400
encircle?a1400
enourle?a1400
umbegivea1400
umbeseta1400
umbeliec1400
umbetighc1400
enroundc1420
measurec1425
umbsteadc1450
adviron?1473
purprise1481
umbeviron1489
belta1500
girtha1500
overgirda1500
engirt15..
envirea1513
round?a1513
brace1513
umbereach1513
becompass1520
circuea1533
girtc1540
umbsetc1540
circule1553
encompass1555
circulate?a1560
ingyre1568
to do about1571
engird1573
circumdate1578
succinge1578
employ1579
circuate1581
girdle1582
wheel1582
circumgyre1583
enring1589
ringa1592
embail1593
enfold1596
invier1596
stem1596
circumcingle1599
ingert1599
engirdle1602
circulize1603
circumscribe1605
begirt1608
to go round1610
enwheela1616
surround1616
shingle1621
encirculize1624
circumviron1632
beround1643
orba1644
circumference1646
becircle1648
incircuitc1650
circumcinge1657
circumtend1684
besiege1686
cincture1789
zone1795
cravat1814
encincture1820
circumvent1824
begirdle1837
perambulate1863
cordon1891
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene i. vii. sig. G2v For all the crest a Dragon did enfold With greedie pawes.
1618 G. Chapman tr. Hesiod Georgicks ii. 236 She never knew how to enfold The force of Venus swimming all in gold.
1633 P. Fletcher Elisa 119 in Purple Island Her snow-white arms..their now dead lord infold.
1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xix. 554 His neck with fond embrace infolding fast.
1850 E. B. Browning Poems (new ed.) II. 414 While the Muses hang enfolding Knee and foot with faint wild hands.
1852 G. Bancroft Hist. Amer. Revol. I. xx. 521 Its people, infolding at one extreme the offspring of colonists from Greece, and at the other, the hardy children of the Northmen.
1855 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. I. 132 [Vines] with lusty stems Their elms infolding.
1855 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Aeneid ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. I. 277 Each snake, inclipping them, infolds.
3. = involve v.
a. To imply or necessarily include. Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > incorporation or inclusion > incorporate or include [verb (transitive)] > implicitly
carry1581
implicate1602
to wind upa1616
enwrap1642
enfold1646
involve1646
1646 N. Lockyer Serm. 11 There be many difficulties about the creature, but may be all infolded in one, to wit, sinne.
b. To involve or plunge in (disaster). Also reflexive. Obsolete.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > [verb (transitive)] > bring (a person or thing) into a state or condition > totally or deeply
wrap1380
embrake1542
enfold1579
immerge1611
1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 250/1 God should infolde vs in one selfe same destruction.
1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 154 We infold our selues in that fault, which we reprooue in others.
1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 456 All couetous men..infold themselues in many griefs.
c. To involve in obligation, to oblige. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
1635 A. Gil Sacred Philos. Holy Script. i. vi. 24 That any thing be, infolds necessarily the will and power of God thereto.
4.
a. To put into the shape of a fold or succession of folds; formerly often figurative to render involved or intricate. Also reflexive and intransitive for reflexive.
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the world > space > relative position > folding or folded condition > fold [verb (transitive)]
foldc888
lapa1300
plya1393
turna1400
doublec1430
plaitc1430
overfold?1440
plet?a1500
flipe1530
upfold1600
enfold1605
plicate1654
tuck1835–6
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > complication or complexity > be or become complicated [verb (intransitive)]
enfold1605
complicate1873
complexify1914
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > complication or complexity > make complicated [verb (transitive)]
entrike?c1425
envolde1451
involve1533
perplex1547
enfold1605
daedalizea1618
fasel1636
interpuzzle1650
puzzle1652
ravel1656
intriguea1677
complicate1832
to twist up1864
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. I2v Fitter for a Declamation, then agreeable to a Treatise infolded as this is. View more context for this quotation
1611 Bible (King James) Ezek. i. 4 A great cloude, and a fire infoulding itselfe. View more context for this quotation
1612 J. Selden in M. Drayton Poly-olbion To Rdr. sig. A2 The Verse oft..so infolds, that suddaine conceipt cannot abstract a Forme of the clothed Truth.
1875 C. Darwin Insectivorous Plants xiv. 324 As the rim is infolded.
1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 950 The cambium layer..becomes deeply infolded where it extends inwards.
b. Surgery. To enclose (an ulcer) in a fold of the organ (e.g. the stomach) by stitching together the walls on either side.
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1903 Lancet 29 Aug. 592/1 I decided to infold the entire ulcerated area without opening the stomach.

Derivatives

enˈfolded adj.
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the world > space > relative position > folding or folded condition > [adjective] > folded together
enfolded1617
complicated1660
wrapped1820
interplicated1884
the world > space > relative position > folding or folded condition > [adjective]
folden1435
doublea1475
appliedc1500
folded1570
reduplicated1599
redoubled1601
plicated1683
duplicated1741
plicate1760
doubled1860
enfolded1879
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 111 That the infolded wormes may die.
1645 J. Milton Arcades in Poems 54 The celestial Sirens..That sit upon the nine enfolded Sphears.
1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. i. v. 92 A semblance as of infolded flame.
enˈfoldedly adv.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > hidden or indirect meaning > [adverb]
sidelings?a1400
covertlyc1400
impliedlyc1449
by implicationa1575
implicatelya1575
implicatively1579
over the shoulder1596
interpretatively1602
implicitly1610
indirectly1613
insinuatively1617
enfoldedly1624
involvedly1624
tacitly1635
tacidly1640
by interpretation1692
adumbratively1753
inexplicitly1776
interpretively1867
1624 Bp. F. White Replie to Iesuit Fishers Answere 280 [It] is neither expresly nor infoldedly taught in holy Scripture.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

enfoldv.2

Brit. /ᵻnˈfəʊld/, /ɛnˈfəʊld/, U.S. /ᵻnˈfoʊld/, /ɛnˈfoʊld/
Forms: Also 1600s infold.
Etymology: < en- prefix1 + fold n.2
rare.
To shut up (sheep, etc.) in a fold.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > rear sheep or wool [verb (transitive)] > fold
foldc1440
stuff1567
sheepfold1610
enfold?1611
cot1804
wattle1908
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [verb (transitive)] > drive or put into enclosure
parc1300
foldc1440
house1578
pinfold1605
pen1607
enfold?1611
impen?1623
to get in1698
weara1724
yard1758
to run in1837
corral1847
paddock1847
kraal1865
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > enclosing or confining > enclose or confine [verb (transitive)] > as in specific place
box1551
encagea1586
bung1592
cell1592
oven1596
pew1609
enfold?1611
stya1616
incabinate1672
web1864
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads viii. K vj Then Troians in their wals Had beene infolded like meeke Lambs, had Ioue winkt at their fals.
1683 I. Walton Chalkhill's Thealma & Clearchus 94 She left the Lovers to enfold her Sheep.
1882 J. Parker Apostolic Life I. 13 Until the last little lamb had been safely enfolded.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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