enfree
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Verb[edit]
enfree (third-person singular simple present enfrees, present participle enfreeing, simple past and past participle enfreed)
- (obsolete) To set free.
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
- the enfreed Antenor
- 1883, George Henry Calvert, Threescore, and Other Poems, May-Spirit:
- Everywhere the mould is bursting
With imprisoned souls enfreed
References[edit]
“enfree”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.