v. Also 7 in-. [f. EN-1 + GLOBE. Cf. Fr. englober.] trans. a. To form into a globe, make globular; to round; in quot. refl. and fig. b. To enclose in, or as in, a globe; in quots. fig.
1611. Florio, Agglobare, to en-globe or make round.
1641. Milton, Ch. Govt., Wks. 1738, I. 53. Prelaty … must be forc’d to dissolve and unmake her own pyramidal figure … inglobe or incube her self among the Presbyters.
a. 1843. Foster, in Life & Corr. (1846), I. 184. If … it [youthful energy] could be englobed … within the bosom of the young adventurer.
1858. Sears, Athan., II. x. 235. The degree in which the heavens are englobed within us.
