encowl

English

Etymology

en- +‎ cowl

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To clothe in a cowl; to convert to a monk.
    • Michael Drayton
      King Alfred that his Christ he might more surely hold,
      Left his Northumbrian Crown, and soon became encowl'd.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for encowl in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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