ppl. a. Her. [f. ENVIRON v. + -ED1.] Of a charge: Set round with other objects, as a head with a wreath, a lion with bezants, etc.
Perh. never in actual Eng. use. In Chambers only as transl. Fr. environné as a term of French heraldry.
1727–51. in Chambers, Cycl.
1847. in Craig.
[1864. See ENVIRON v. 1 c.] In mod. Dicts.
