v. [f. EN-1 + SWATHE sb. or v.] trans. To bind or wrap in a swathe or bandage. Also refl.

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1597.  Shaks., Lover’s Compl., 49. Letters sadly pend in blood,… Enswath’d and seald to curious secrecy.

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1827.  De Quincey, Last Days Kant, Wks. III. 116. Nesting and enswathing himself in the bedclothes.

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1830.  H. N. Coleridge, Grk. Poets, 196.

        Then did they bathe thee in a fresh, pure stream,
Archer Apollo! and enswath’d thy limbs
In a white robe, translucent.

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  transf. and fig.

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1830.  Aird, in Blackw. Mag., XXVIII. 821. A lucid air enswathed her head.

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1842.  Tennyson, St. Simeon Stylites, 74. Inswathed sometimes in wandering mist.

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1857.  J. Pulsford, Quiet Hours, 174. Dense vapours were enswathing the soul.

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1873.  Browning, Red Cott. Nt.-cap, 235. Your smile enswathes me in beatitude.

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