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enfouldered

enfouldered adjective: mixed with lightning or fire.

Adjective

enfouldered (not comparable)

  1. (poetic) Mixed with lightning or fire.
    • With foul enfouldred smoke and flashing fire1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    • Glaucous, hoar, enfouldered, cyathiform,
      Making mere faculae of the sun and moon […]c. 1933-1934, Hugh MacDiarmid, On a Raised Beach

Origin of enfouldered

From en- + Old French fouldre (“lightning”), from Latin fulgur (“lightning”), fulgere (“to flash”), + -ed.

Questions about enfouldered

What does enfouldered mean?
Enfouldered means mixed with lightning or fire.
What part of speech is enfouldered?
Enfouldered is an adjective.

Words near enfouldered in the dictionary

  1. enformations
  2. enformed
  3. enforming
  4. enforms
  5. enfoul
  6. enfouldered
  7. enfouled
  8. enfouling
  9. enfouls
  10. ENFP
  11. ENFPs

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