engarland

[en-gahr-luhnd]

verb (used with object)

1. to encircle with or as with a garland.

Word History and Origins

Origin of engarland¹

First recorded in 1575–85; en- ¹ + garland

Example Sentences

Engarland, en-g�r′land, v.t. to put a garland round.

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Round him the birds troop Singing and hailing; Wings of all glories Engarland the king.

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Ah, the days of heaven when All the songs shall sing forever down the perfect ways of men, And the lilies and the roses in the fields of death and doom Shall engarland all the path-ways with the bright of bud and bloom!

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Emulously they renew the feast, and, glad at the high omen, array the flagons and engarland the wine.

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When she looked on the beautiful, glorified countenance of her son, and thought of that which he was and on what he would become; when she thought on the laurels which would engarland his beloved head, on the future which awaited her favourite, her summer child—Oh! then bloomed the high summer of maternal joy in her breast, and she revelled in a nameless happiness—a happiness so great that she was almost anxious, because it appeared to her too great to be borne on earth!

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