Obs. [a. OF. ensemble-r in same sense. Cf. ASSEMBLE.] trans. To bring together, assemble; also refl. and intr. for refl.
a. 1300. Leg. St. Gregory, 982. Þe cardinals al togider come, Ensembled þai were alle þo.
c. 1380. Sir Ferumb., 5467. Þay ensemblede þanne to-gadre anon.
1491. Caxton, Vitas Patr. (1495), 11. By very charite were they [the hermits] ensembled, alied and unyed.
1533. More, Apol., xlvii. Wks. 920/2. Openly by day they ensembled themselfe together to the noumber of an hundred.
