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engilt

engilt is the simple past and past participle of engild.

Meaning of engild

Verb

engild (third-person singular simple present engilds, present participle engilding, simple past and past participle engilded or engilt)

  1. (transitive) To gild; to make splendid.
    • Fair Helena, who most engilds the night.c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First...

Adjective

engilt

  1. Gilded; made golden.
    • The sun-flakes by multitudes lie, / Shed loose as the petals of roses discrowned / On the floors of the forest engilt and embrowned / And reddened afar and anigh.1893, The Nineteenth Century and After: A Monthly Review, page 502

Questions about engilt

What does engilt mean?
Engilt means gilded; made golden.
What is engilt the simple past and past participle of?
Engilt is the simple past and past participle of engild.
What part of speech is engilt?
Engilt is an adjective.

Words near engilt in the dictionary

  1. engifts
  2. engild
  3. engilded
  4. engilding
  5. engilds
  6. engilt
  7. engin
  8. engin.
  9. engine
  10. engine bay
  11. engine bays

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Adapted from Wiktionary: engilt (page history and authors); engild (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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