enfrozen

English

Etymology

From en- +‎ frozen.

Adjective

enfrozen (not comparable)

1. (chiefly poetic) Frozen.
   • 1766, James Grainger, The sugar-cane: a poem. In four books, page 158:

     From her poetic heat Harmonious flows, and taught by her oft paints The visionary scene, and touches all The Springs of Passion; her's each winning Grace, And comely Gesture her's: enfrozen'd age, Bending to earth beneath the weight of years, With wrinkled front, and venerable hair, Melts at her fair approach;

   • 1853 May, Lewis Lewellyn, “Memory's Dreams”, in Godey's Lady's Book, volume 47, page 453:

     My sad despair, enfrozen soul, Yields to joy's false but fond control.

   • 1854, Julia Ward Howe, “The Master”, in Passion-flowers, page 174:

     Then my world-enfrozen heart Faster beat, and faster; As I looked upon the Man, I beheld the Master

   • 1858, Mrs. Dring ·, “Who Redeemeth Thy Life”, in Poems, Sacred & Miscellaneous, page 66:

     Where towering icebergs ever reign Upon the wild enfrozen main; And man lives not, the temperature Too keen for him ere to endure.

   • 1859, H Rogers, “The Weeping Patriots”, in Lays of the Holy Land, page 233:

     They saw the second temple rise, But far less fair and bright; And e'en their age-enfrozen eyes, Dropt sorrow at the sight.

   • 1883, J Wood Beilby, Eureka, an elucidation of mysteries in nature, page 24:

     Even the ice-bound shores of Spitzbergen, and the frozen mouths of northern Siberian rivers, have furnished proofs of ocean-borne drifts of carcases of animals of ancient type having been swept from land surfaces to their now enfrozen beds in drift formations.

   • 1915, Mrs. Athel Sayce, “Night”, in Poems, page 23:

     Was landscape from the mountain side, To painter's eye more grand? Enfrozen winter wreathed in snow, A glimpse from fairy land.

Verb

enfrozen

1. past participle of enfreeze