enfold

English

Alteration of earlier infold, from Middle English infolden, equivalent to en- +‎ fold.

enfold (third-person singular simple present enfolds, present participle enfolding, simple past and past participle enfolded)

(transitive) To envelop and wrap up something.
- 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto V”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
  In words, like weeds, I’ll wrap me o’er,
  ⁠Like coarsest clothes against the cold:
  ⁠But that large grief which these enfold
  Is given in outline and no more.
(transitive) To clasp with the arms; embrace.
- 1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:
  Prais’d be the fathomless universe, / For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, / And for love, sweet love—but praise! praise! praise! / For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death.

to fold something around, to envelop

enfold c (singular definite enfolden, not used in plural form)