environern.
/ᵻnˈvʌɪrənə/, /ᵻnˈvʌɪrn̩ə/, /ɛnˈvʌɪrənə/, /ɛnˈvʌɪrn̩ə/, U.S. /ənˈvaɪrənər/, /ənˈvaɪ(ə)rnər/, /ɛnˈvaɪrənər/, /ɛnˈvaɪ(ə)rnər/ archaic and rare in later use.
A person who or thing which environs or surrounds someone or something.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surrounding > [noun] > one who or that which surrounds
environing?c1400
environer1562
encircler1631
surrounder1683
1562 W. Bullein Bk. Simples f. 12, in Bulwarke of Defence The Ocian..seperature of landes, enuironer of Ilandes.
1656 J. Sparrow tr. J. Böhme Aurora xxvi. 612 As in Man the Skull is a contayner or incloser of the Brayne;..So the Saturnine power is an environer, dryer and contayner of all Corporeity and comprehensibilitie or Palpability.
a1885 J. Fraser Univ. & Other Serm. (1887) xii. 171 If there is arrangement, is it not possible that there may have been an arranger?..if an environment, an environer?
1899 K. P. Wormeley tr. C.-H. de Saint-Simon Mem. IV. xii. 372 The other environers of M. le Duc would certainly defeat him.
1944 W. J. Blyton After Life (Catholic Truth Soc.) 12 The soul which attains to correspondence with the Perfect Environer, God, must live for ever.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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