Definition of Engarlands

1. Verb. (third-person singular of engarland) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Engarlands

1. engarland [v] - See also: engarland

Lexicographical Neighbors of Engarlands

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

Literary usage of Engarlands

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

1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1901)
"... and how he ornaments his thoughts and engarlands his speeches, how cunningly he imbues himself with the knowledge of the ancients and of foreigners, ..."

2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"On that part of the cornice, whence no rim engarlands its steep fall, did Virgil come; On the other side me were the spirits, their cheeks Bathing devout ..."

3. The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare by Jean Jules Jusserand (1908)
"... pains Lyly gives himself to make his innovation a success, and so please his patronesses, and how he ornaments his thoughts and engarlands his speeches, ..."

4. Haiti, Her History and Her Detractors by Jacques Nicolas Léger (1907)
"The convolvulus vine engarlands trees on whose trunks and branches wild orchids bloom. The fairy-like beauty of the scene is still more enchanting when seen ..."

5. Readings on the Paradiso of Dante: Chiefly Based on the Commentary of by William Warren Vernon, Dante Alighieri (1900)
"... ocean) which engarlands the earth, between discordant shores extends against the sun (/'. e. from west to east) so far, that it makes its meridian there ..."

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