v. Obs. Forms: 5 um-, vmbelappe (6 vn-); 4–5 um-, vmbilappe, vmbylap(p. [See UMBE- and BELAP v., and cf. UMLAP v.] trans. To encompass, surround.
a. 1350. St. Andrew, 243, in Horstm., Altengl. Leg. (1881), 7. Þar come a light in Doun fro þe heuyn … And vmbilappid his bodi about.
a. 1400[?]. Morte Arth., 1819. The kynge of Lebe has laughte a stede þat hym lykede, And comes in lordely…, Umbelappez þe lumpe, and lattes in sondre.
c. 1400. Maundev. (Roxb.), xxviii. 128. A thikke mirkness … vmbelapped þe emperour and all his oste.
c. 1440. Alph. Tales, 423. When I dyed devuls vmbelappid me.
c. 1440. Gesta Rom., xcv. 426 (Add. MS.). Thou mayste aske, why this man disserued contricion, that wes vmbelapped with so many synnes.
1502. Atkynson, trans. De Imitatione, III. lxii. (1893), 254. If it touch the, yet let it nat throwe þe downe, ne longe vnbelappe the.
