Definition of Engarland

1. v. t. To encircle with a garland, or with garlands.

Definition of Engarland

1. Verb. To encircle with a garland or garlands. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Engarland

1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Engarland

engagement ring
engagement rings
engagements
engager
engagers
engages
engaging
engagingly
engagingness
engagor
engagors
engaol
engaoled
engaoling
engaols
engarland (current term)
engarlanded
engarlanding
engarlands
engarrison
engarrisoned
engarrisoning
engarrisons
engastrius
engawa
engawas
engelmannia
engendered
engendered reliance

Literary usage of Engarland

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annual Report by Fairmount Park Art Association (1903)
"Sir Philip Sidney, in his essay on the art of poesy, says: "Plant more laurels with which to engarland the brows of the poets." Well, paraphrasing that and ..."

2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"He, forthwith answering, thus his words began: " The valley of waters," widest next to that" Which doth the earth engarland, shapes its course, ..."

3. Elizabethan Critical Essays by George Gregory Smith (1904)
"... not banished, but honored by Plato; let vs rather plant more Laurels for to engarland our Poets heads (which honor of beeing laureat, as besides them ..."

4. An English Garner: Ingatherings from Our History & Literature by Edward Arber (1897)
"I OFT invoked your holy aid, With choicest flowers my speech t'engarland so, That it, despised in true but naked show, ight win some grace in your sweet ..."

5. The Defense of Poesy, Otherwise Known as An Apology for Poetry by Sir Philip Sidney (1890)
"Cf. 3S 29-40 32. 447. Not of abusing. Cf. 378-3828. 44 8. Not banished. Cf. 42 9-43 15. 44 9. engarland. Used by Sidney in Sonnet 56 of ..."

6. Annual Report by Fairmount Park Art Association (1903)
"Sir Philip Sidney, in his essay on the art of poesy, says: "Plant more laurels with which to engarland the brows of the poets." Well, paraphrasing that and ..."

7. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"He, forthwith answering, thus his words began: " The valley of waters," widest next to that" Which doth the earth engarland, shapes its course, ..."

8. Elizabethan Critical Essays by George Gregory Smith (1904)
"... not banished, but honored by Plato; let vs rather plant more Laurels for to engarland our Poets heads (which honor of beeing laureat, as besides them ..."

9. An English Garner: Ingatherings from Our History & Literature by Edward Arber (1897)
"I OFT invoked your holy aid, With choicest flowers my speech t'engarland so, That it, despised in true but naked show, ight win some grace in your sweet ..."

10. The Defense of Poesy, Otherwise Known as An Apology for Poetry by Sir Philip Sidney (1890)
"Cf. 3S 29-40 32. 447. Not of abusing. Cf. 378-3828. 44 8. Not banished. Cf. 42 9-43 15. 44 9. engarland. Used by Sidney in Sonnet 56 of ..."

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