Obs. Also 6 ennaration. [ad. L. ēnārrātiōn-em, n. of action f. ē-nārrā-re: see prec.]
1. An exposition, a commentary.
1563–87. Foxe, A. & M. (1596), 48/2. Heraclitus … first began to write … ennarations upon the new testament.
1570. Billingsley, Euclid, I. xxvi. 37. As witnesseth Eudemus in his booke of Geometricall enarrations.
1609. Bible (Douay), Ps. cl. comm., S. Augustin in the conclusion of his Enarrations or Sermons upon the Psalmes, explicateth a mysterie.
1647. Torshell, Designe, 8. The Ancients framed their Commentaries, Enarrations, Scholies, [etc.].
2. A description, detailed story or narrative.
1592. trans. Junius on Rev. xvii. 7. There is [in the Apocalypse] … an enarration of the beast.
1666. J. Smith, Old Age (1676), 68. An Anatomical Enarration of the several compounding parts of these limbs.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., I. v. 802. In that enarration which is written, concerning the Rich man and Lazarus.
1727. David Wilkins, in J. H. Monk, Life R. Bentley (1833), II. 21. The whole discourse contained … nothing but an enarration of his performances.
1826. G. S. Faber, Difficulties of Romanism (1853), 301. Augustine’s Enarrations on the Psalms.
