a. Law. Later spelling of enseint = ENCEINTE.
1827. J. Powell, Devises (ed. 3), II. 359. A natural child of which a particular woman is ensient.
1818. Cruise, Digest, VI. 181. If … his said wife should be ensient with one or more children.
Hence Ensienture, the state of being with child, pregnancy.
1775. in Ash.
