encowlとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

encowl (三人称単数 現在形 encowls, 現在分詞 encowling, 過去形および過去分詞形 encowled)

1. (transitive) To clothe (as) in a cowl; to make (someone) a monk.
   • 1622, Michael Drayton, The Second Part, or a Continuance of Poly-Olbion, London: John Marriott et al., Song 24, p. 96,^[1]

     King Alfred that his Christ he might more surely hold,

     Left his Northumbrian Crowne, and soone became encould,

   • 1655, anonymous poem from the collection The Marrow of Compliments, in A. H. Bullen (ed.), Speculum Amantis, London, 1889, p. 98,^[2]

     And is’t not brave when summer’s robes

     Have all the fields encowled

     To have a green gown on the grass

     And wear it uncontroul’d?