Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To encircle or deck with or as if with a garland.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To encircle with a garland.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To encircle with a garland, or with garlands.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
encircle with agarland or garlands.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Unrebuked, the skies now reveal the brightness of day, now shroud the daylight in the darkness of night; the year may now engarland the face of the earth with flowers and fruits, now disfigure it with storms and cold.
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Emulously they renew the feast, and, glad at the high omen, array the flagons and engarland the wine.
The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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Which doth the earth engarland, shapes its course,
Paradise. Canto IX 1909
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Often mists from the Elbe rose mystically to engarland the crenelated castles here and there on the heights.
Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life Stuart Oliver Henry 1906
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The least excuse was taken to engarland piously the doors of houses with branches, to bleed the sacrificial pig, or slaughter the lamb.
Saint Augustin Louis Bertrand 1903
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Unrebuked, the skies now reveal the brightness of day, now shroud the daylight in the darkness of night; the year may now engarland the face of the earth with flowers and fruits, now disfigure it with storms and cold.
The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1896
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With a laurel wreath woven by no mortal hand shall she at Reims engarland happily the gardener of the Lily, named Charles, son of
The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 Anatole France 1884
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Which doth the earth engarland, shapes its course,
The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Paradise, Complete 1265-1321 Dante Alighieri 1293
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Which doth the earth engarland, shapes its course,
The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Paradise, Volume 1 1265-1321 Dante Alighieri 1293
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Which doth the earth engarland, shapes its course,
Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete 1265-1321 Dante Alighieri 1293
ry commented on the word engarland
also this one
November 15, 2018