encowl

Verb

encowl (third-person singular simple present encowls, present participle encowling, simple past and past participle encowled)

1. (transitive) To clothe (as) in a cowl; to make (someone) a monk.
   • King Alfred that his Christ he might more surely hold,
     Left his Northumbrian Crowne, and soone became encould,1622, Michael Drayton, The Second Part, or a Continuance of Poly-Olbion, London: John Marriott, et al, Song 24, p. 96
   • And is’t not brave when summer’s robes
     Have all the fields encowled
     To have a green gown on the grass
     And wear it uncontroul’d?1655, anonymous poem from the collection The Marrow of Compliments, in A. H. Bullen (ed.), Speculum Amantis, London, 1889, p. 98