enknit

English

Alternative forms

• inknit, in-knit

Etymology

From Middle English inknitten, equivalent to en- +‎ knit.

Verb

enknit (third-person singular simple present enknits, present participle enknitting, simple past and past participle enknitted)

1. (transitive) To knit in; intwine; (by extension) to interweave
   • 1882, The Kindergarten for Teachers and Parents, volume 5, page 675:

     Did you ever think how these universal stories have become inknitted with the very life of universal history?

   • 1885, William Johnston Hutchinson, Miscellaneous Poems, page 52:

     She goes ! She comes again ! so flits
     Now to the window; now retires.
     Her loveliness the morn befits,
     And with a, welcome cord enknits
     And keeps the praise which it inspires.

   • 1886, Horace Eaton Walker, The Lady of Dardale and Other Poems, page 44:

     In highest sky, the kindred tear
     May wet the dust, and jostling feet
     Polish the stones, the eyes may meet,
     The thoughts enknit the present, past,
     Entwine the bay, the flowers cast […]

   • 1901, Basil Marnan, A Daughter of the Veldt, page 301:

     Once enknitted into the stern fibre that ran through all her moods, it sought fields of operation.

   • 2013, Wilson Knight, Sovereign Flower:

     The tempest which was used mainly as a symbol of adverse fortune in the Comedies and more subtly, though only imagis-tically, in the Histories, becomes from Julius Caesar onwards violent in effect and meaning, closely in-knitted in the whole.