encowl

English

Etymology

en- +‎ cowl

Verb

encowl (third-person singular simple present encowls, present participle encowling, simple past and past participle encowled)

1. (transitive) To clothe (as) in a cowl; to make (someone) a monk.
   • 1622, Michael Drayton, The Second Part, or a Continuance of Poly-Olbion‎^[1], London: John Marriott, et al, Song 24, p. 96:

     King Alfred that his Christ he might more surely hold,
     Left his Northumbrian Crowne, and soone became encould,

   • 1655, anonymous poem from the collection The Marrow of Compliments, in A. H. Bullen (ed.), Speculum Amantis, London, 1889, p. 98,^[2]

     And is’t not brave when summer’s robes

     Have all the fields encowled

     To have a green gown on the grass

     And wear it uncontroul’d?

Anagrams

• Clowne