v. Also 6 enveile, envele. [f. EN-1 + VEIL sb. Cf. OF. envoiler.] trans. To cover with a veil, place a veil upon (e.g., a woman when received into a religious order). Also transf. and fig. to shroud as with a veil.
1555. W. Watreman, Fardle Facions, Pref. A. vi b. Hauyng thus with his subtilties enueiled our mindes. Ibid., II. xii. 268. The Bisshoppe was giuen authoritie to enueile virgines, and to hallow them.
1837. Foreign Q. Rev., XIX. 305. Kerner again has taken up the whole black mantle of Novalis, and enveiled himself with it.
1850. Blackie, Æschylus, II. 170. When dark night enveils the welkin.
