enwrapt

English

Verb

enwrapt

1. (archaic) simple past and past participle of enwrap
   • 1624, “The Tragedy of Nero”, in Old English Plays, Vol. I‎^[1]:

     O could I live to see the generall end, / Behold the world enwrapt in funerall flame, / When as the Sunne shall lend his beames to burne What he before brought forth, […]

   • 1883, Omar Khayyám, trans. Edward Henry Whinfield, Quatrains of Omar Khayyám, No. 72, page 50:

     Down fall the tears from skies enwrapt in gloom, / Without this drink, the flowers could never bloom! / As now these flowerets yield delight to me, / So shall my dust yield flowers—God knows for whom.

Anagrams

• Antwerp