[f. as prec. + -ING2.]
a. 1777. Fawkes, Eulogy I. Newton (R.). Waves … bare the dangers of th’ engulphing sand.
1852. D. Moir, Thomson’s Birth-pl., iv. Wks. I. 213. Overhead the rapturous lark Soared as it sung, less and less visible, Till but a voice ’mid heaven’s engulfing blue.
1871. Tylor, Prim. Cult., I. 304. The list of myths of engulphing monsters.
