v. Obs. In 4 ene(y)ntis, -ysch. [var. ff. of ANIENTISE.] trans. To bring to nothing, exhaust (the contents of a vessel).
Hence Enentising vbl. sb., exhaustion, fainting.
c. 1340. Hampole, Psalter lxxiv. 8. The groundis that is the pyne of hell is noght enentist [ibid. enentyscht] that it ne last withouten ende.
1388. Wyclif, Judith xiii. 29. Achior … felde doun on his face … and his soule suffride eneyntisyng.
