1to surround, encircle:
(
s.xiii1/3;
MS: s.xiiiex
)
l’une
(=agate) est neyre et enceinte de blaunches veines
124
(
c.1235;
MS: c.1235
) Mes cist ki mortz estoit releva au terz di, E eu ciel munta. Grant turbe le sivi; Gloire e clarté les esceint
265
♦
geog.
to surround, encompass, be adjacent to:
(
s.xiii;
MS: c.1300
) L’eue de Wer [...] enceint Finchale que des l’oriantal, aquilon et partie de l’occidental, si n’i lesse neant a enceindre fors devers le su, et de cele part est li lieus enceint de granz bois
748-50
♦
mil.
to surround (with armed forces):
(
c.1245;
MS: c.1255
)
(the English) asparpillez sunt en la pleinne. Li ducs pense k’il les e[n]ceinne
4602
♦
archit.to enclose, surround with an enclosure:
(
s.xiiiex;
MS: 1307-15
)
ki ne est enceint e enclos du mur de silence
183.28
(
1303
)
Il ad dist q'il abatist le fosse etc.; en taunt graunt il qe la place fut enseint
30-1 Ed I 327
2to wrap around, enfold:
(
1212;
MS: 1212-13
)
(the dragon) de sa coue enceint Mes piez, e mes genoilz estreint
18283
3fig.to embrace, take to:
(
1212;
MS: 1212-13
)
Boer nasquit qui savoir ençaint
56
1(considered incorrect) to gird oneself:
(
c.1290;
MS: 1307-25
)
De une coreie vous ceintez. Ne di pas ‘vous enceintez’, Kar femme est par home enceinte
189
1
geog.
surrounded, encompassed, adjacent to:
(
s.xiiiin;
MS: s.xiii1
) Devers norht veient vers le suht La tere emceint de grant palut
134
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enceindre (s.xiiiin)