enwrap, inwrap, v.
(ɛn-, ɪnˈræp)
[f. en-1, in- + wrap v.]
1. trans. To wrap, envelop, enfold in or with (a garment, case, or covering, coils or folds of anything); also, with the thing enveloping as subject. lit. and fig. † In early use also: To fold up (a garment).
| α 1382 Wyclif Jer. x. 8 A tree..with siluer enwrappid. 1548 Gest Pr. Masse 71 To enwrap. 1572 J. Bossewell Armorie ii. 95 b, Twoo Cypres trees..enwrapped with Ivy proper. 1578 Banister Hist. Man iv. 51 Membranes enwrappyng round the ioyntes. Ibid. viii. 105 They are enwrapped both with the thinne, and also the hard Membrans. 1601 Holland Pliny II. 280 It ought to be applied enwrapped well in wooll. 1683 A. Snape Anat. Horse iv. xxi. (1686) 188 For it enwrappeth almost all the Muscles of the Thigh. 1725–6 Pope Odyss. viii. 339 Down rushed the toils, enwrapping as they lay The careless lovers. 1775 R. Chandler Trav. Asia M. (1825) I. 82 The women of the Turks..when they go out, are enwrapped in white linen. 1830 Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 144 Petals..enwrapping the stamens. 1845 P. Parley's Ann. VI. 80 The body of a man..enwrapped in a shroud. |
| β 1382 Wyclif 2 Kings ii. 8 Helyas tooke his mantyll, and inwrappyde it. ― Prov. xxix. 6 The sinnende wicke man a grene shal inwrappe. 1555 Eden Decades W. Ind. ii. ix. (Arb.) 132 When shee seeth her younge chekyn inwrapped in towe or flaxe. 1605 Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. xxii. §6 How they [the affections] are enwrapped one within another. a 1661 Fuller Worthies, Wiltshire iii. 165 His Armes..three Children-heads..Inwrapped about their necks, with as many Snakes Proper. 1750 G. Hughes Barbados 253 Inwrapped in sometimes ten or eleven green husky leaves. |
b. transf. To wrap, enfold closely in a surrounding medium,
e.g. clouds, darkness, vapour. Of the medium: To envelop. Also
fig.| α 1545 Udall Erasm. Par. Luke (1548) xxiii. 806 Enwrapping his minde and sentence in the mistical darknesse of parables. 1563 Sackville Mirr. Mag. Induct. 5 The mantels rent, wherein enwrapped been The gladsome groves. 1640 Bp. Hall Rem. Wks. ii. (1660) 38 Neither can it ever see more than half the World at once; darkness the while enwraps the other. 1768–74 Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) II. 415 The fiery meteor, enwrapt in clouds and darkness. 1848 Miller First Impr. xi. (1857) 172 It stands half enwrapped in tall wood. a 1849 Poe E. B. Browning Wks. 1864 III. 403 A mystical something or nothing enwrapped in a fog of rhapsody. |
| β 1590–6 Spenser F.Q. (J.), Arachne..Spread her subtil net, Inwrapped in foul smoak. 1668 Howe Bless. Righteous (1825) 53 And inwraps it in the blackness of darkness for ever. 1878 G. Macdonald Phantastes III. xxii. 161 Inwrapt me like an odorous vapour. |
c. Const.
from.
| a 1849 Poe Valentine Poems (1859) 57 Her own sweet name that nestling lies upon the page, enwrapped from every reader. 1883 T. Hardy in Longm. Mag. July 254 The inevitable glooms of a straitened hard-working life occasionally enwrap him from such pleasures as he has. |
2. fig. a. To contain implicitly, involve.
| 1642 Observ. on his Majesty's Answ. to Decl. Parl. 13 Whether this or that Doctrine enwraps the greatest Danger. 1649 Roberts Clavis Bibl. 619 The benefits enwrapped in this salvation for the Church. 1882 Pop. Science Monthly XXII. 148 An act which inwraps so much of irreparable loss. |
b. To ‘wrap’ in slumber, trance, etc.; to absorb or engross in contemplation, thought, etc.
In some applications of this sense the
pa. pple. is liable to be confused with
enrapt,
q.v.| α 1600 Fairfax Tasso xiv. xvii, Enwrapt in fond desire. 1601 Shakes. Twel. N. iv. iii. 3 Though 'tis wonder that enwraps me thus, Yet 'tis not madnesse. 1629 Milton Nativity 134 If such holy song Enwrap our fancy long. |
| β 1589 Greene Arcadia (1616) 41 His trance, wherein the present wonder had inwrapt him. 1641 Milton Ch. Discip. ii. (1851) 68, I doe now feele my selfe inwrapt on the sodaine into those mazes and Labyrinths of dreadfull and hideous thoughts. 1836–9 Dickens Sk. Boz 176/2 Too much inwrapped in the contemplation of his happiness. |
† c. To involve, implicate, entangle (in danger, guilt, suffering); to involve in a common fate
with another.
Obs.| α 1382 Wyclif 1 Sam. xv. 6 Departith fro Amalech, lest perauenture I enwrappe thee with hem. 1617 Collins Def. Bp. Ely i. i. 74 We should feare to be enwrapped in his danger. 1636 Sanderson Serm. II. 47 And from enwrapping himself within the guilt of their transgressions. 1826 E. Irving Babylon II. vi. 133 That day of wrath..fearfully enwrappeth them all in the horrors of its last hour. |
| β 1563–87 Foxe A. & M. (1596) 97/1 They inwrapped themselues in..miserie and desolation. 1635 N. R. tr. Camden's Hist. Eliz. iv. 178 His confession..inwrapped many. 1675 Brooks Gold. Key Wks. 1867 V. 147 The first Adam..plunged himself into all unrighteousness, and so inwrapped himself in the curse. |
Hence
enˈwrapped,
-ˈwrapt ppl. a.| 1598 Chapman Iliad i. 313 To heaven the thick fumes bore Enwrapped savours. 1605 Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. xxiii. §33 Somewhat viscous and inwrapped, and not easy to turn. a 1638 Mede Wks. i. xliv. 250 When the inwrapped Promises were unfolded and revealed. 1868 Selden's Table-t. (Arb.) Introd. 9 Their inwrapped principles may be understood in their nature. |