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enform

enform verb: to form; to fashion; to shape.

Verb

enform (third-person singular simple present enforms, present participle enforming, simple past and past participle enformed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive, literal or figurative) To form; to fashion; to shape
    • And in the minds of men had great insight ;
      Which with sage counsel , when they went astray ,
      He could enform, and them reduce aright1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of enform

third-person singular presentenforms
present participleenforming
past participleenformed
pastenformed

Origin of enform

From French enformer. See inform.

Questions about enform

What does enform mean?
Enform means to form; to fashion; to shape.
What part of speech is enform?
Enform is a verb.
What is the past tense of enform?
The past tense of enform is enformed.

Words near enform in the dictionary

  1. Enford
  2. enforest
  3. enforested
  4. enforesting
  5. enforests
  6. enform
  7. enformation
  8. enformations
  9. enformed
  10. enforming
  11. enforms

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