enflesh

English

Etymology

en- +‎ flesh

Verb

enflesh (third-person singular simple present enfleshes, present participle enfleshing, simple past and past participle enfleshed)

1. (transitive) To clothe with flesh.
   • 1598, John Florio, “Enflesh”, in A Worlde of Words, or Most Copious, and Exact Dictionarie in Italian and English, […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield for Edw[ard] Blount, →OCLC:

     Vices which are […] enfleshed in him.

   • 2023, Shelley Lynn Tremain, The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability, page 1936:

     Accordingly, ablenationalism when taken to this extreme, perpetuated through the war on drugs and its financial and enfleshed circulation of violence, reconfigures what Puar (2017) calls the "right to maim."

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “enflesh”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• fleshen