▪ I. enfolding, infolding, vbl. n.
(ɛn-, ɪnˈfəʊldɪŋ)
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb enfold. Also concr. in various applications: (a) a wrappage, envelope, † in pl. garments; (b) a fold, convolution.
| 1586 W. Webbe Disc. Eng. Poetrie (Arb.) 65 The turning of verses; the infolding of wordes. 1611 Shakes. Wint. T. iv. iv. 755 Seest thou not the ayre of the Court, in these enfoldings? 1873 Mivart Elem. Anat. ix. 372 Infoldings of the surface of the organ. 1880 A. Wilson in Gentl. Mag. CCXLVI. 45 The infolding of this blastoderm. 1882 Vines Sachs' Bot. 533 The cells which contain chlorophyll exhibit the infoldings of the cell-wall. 1885 W. K. Parker Mammal. Descent iii. 88 The embryo and its inner enfoldings. |
▪ II. enfolding, infolding, ppl. a.
(ɛn-, ɪnˈfəʊldɪŋ)
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That enfolds.
| 1669 Bunyan Holy Citie 169 An infolding Mystery wrapped up, and inclosed. 1735 H. Brooke Univ. Beauty i. (R.), In balm imbosom'd every region lies, Of ambient ether and infolding skies. 1827 Keble Chr. Y., St. Michael ix, Waft us heaven-ward with enfolding wing. 1879 Farrar St. Paul (1883) 144 An infolding fire and a supernatural sound arrested their progress. |