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encarriage

encarriage verb: to put aboard a carriage.

Verb

encarriage (third-person singular simple present encarriages, present participle encarriaging, simple past and past participle encarriaged)

  1. (literary, rare, transitive) To put aboard a carriage.
    • They got the “draps;” then they encarriaged themselves again and turned their despairing steed homeward.1916 September, Effie Graham, “Too ‘Smaht’ to Live”, in Aunt Liza’s “Praisin’ Gate”, Chicago, Ill.: A. C. McClurg & Co., →OCLC, pages 83–84
    • G> These guys are incorrigible.
      G> Please. Don't incorrige them!
      G> :-)
      AHEM! As a member of the Temple of Set I resemble that remark!
      Personally, I'd rather be encarriaged.1995 January 30, Balanone, “Temple Of Set”, in alt.pagan (Usenet), archived from the original on 25 Feb 2025
  2. (intransitive, literary, rare) To board a carriage.
    • When the officials arrived Admiral Sperry was earnestly begged to encarriage again for a short drive to give the populace who arrived later a final greeting.1908, 風俗畵報, Tokyo: 東陽堂, →OCLC
    • Mid-morning, and the town council greeted incoming dignitaries at the railway station. Noon, and Mrs Hodgson arrived and encarriaged. The foot-goers fell in behind the Cornet (in full Common Riding costume) for the procession through the town: a flute band, a saxhorn band, a masonic lodge, the...1983, Dick Sullivan, “The Making of Hawick”, in Navvyman, London: Coracle Books, →ISBN, page 106

Examples of encarriage in a sentence

  • Abbey provided an ancient carriage to carry me from the pierhead, a contractual obligation he fulfilled to encarriage me in the style to which I was accustomed.2008, Milo Yelesiyevich, “Epilogue”, in Wilde About Holmes, New York, N.Y.: Comic Masque, →ISBN, page 326:
  • My woman encarriaged returneth, / Her body now supple'd delighted from eastern magic.2013 July 5, Nat Lipstadt, “For she will be my heroine for all time”, in Hello Poetry, archived from the original on 28 Feb 2025:
  • Noon, and Mrs Hodgson arrived and encarriaged.1983, Dick Sullivan, “The Making of Hawick”, in Navvyman, London: Coracle Books, →ISBN, page 106:

Forms of encarriage

third-person singular presentencarriages
present participleencarriaging
past participleencarriaged
pastencarriaged

Origin of encarriage

From en- + carriage. Compare entrain.

Questions about encarriage

What does encarriage mean?
Encarriage means to put aboard a carriage.
How do you use encarriage in a sentence?
Abbey provided an ancient carriage to carry me from the pierhead, a contractual obligation he fulfilled to encarriage me in the style to which I was accustomed.
What part of speech is encarriage?
Encarriage is a verb.
What is the past tense of encarriage?
The past tense of encarriage is encarriaged.

Words near encarriage in the dictionary

  1. encarnalizes
  2. encarnalizing
  3. encarpi
  4. encarpus
  5. encarpuses
  6. encarriage
  7. encarriaged
  8. encarriages
  9. encarriaging
  10. encase
  11. encased

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