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encarriage en · VERB

Etymology

From en- + carriage. Compare entrain.

Meanings

1. (literary, rare, transitive) To put aboard a carriage.
   • They got the “draps;” then they encarriaged themselves again and turned their despairing steed homeward. 1916 September, Effie Graham, “Too ‘Smaht’ to Live”, in Aunt Liza’s “Praisin’ Gate”, Chicago, Ill.: A. C. McClurg & Co., →OCLC, pages 83–84:
   • But wait! My woman encarriaged returneth, / Her body now supple'd delighted from eastern magic. 2013 July 5, Nat Lipstadt, “For she will be my heroine for all time”, in Hello Poetry, archived from the original on 28 Feb 2025:
   • Abbey provided an ancient carriage to carry me from the pierhead, a contractual obligation he fulfilled to encarriage me in the style to which I was accustomed. 2008, Milo Yelesiyevich, “Epilogue”, in Wilde About Holmes, New York, N.Y.: Comic Masque, →ISBN, page 326:
   • G> These guys are incorrigible. G> Please. Don't incorrige them! G> :-) AHEM! As a member of the Temple of Set I resemble that remark! Personally, I'd rather be encarriaged. 1995 January 30, Balanone, “Temple Of Set”, in alt.pagan (Usenet), archived from the original on 25 Feb 2025:
2. (intransitive, literary, rare) To board a carriage.
   • When the officials arrived Admiral Sperry was earnestly begged to encarriage again for a short drive to give the populace who arrived later a final greeting. 1908, 風俗畵報, Tokyo: 東陽堂, →OCLC:
   • They then encarriaged, and drove ‘through the very poor long village of Newton More’ towards Cluny Castle, passing ‘miserable little cottages and farmhouses’, to arrive where she had been back in 1847 and nearly bought some property, Loch Laggan. 2000, Ian R[obert] Mitchell, “The Jacobite Tour”, in On the Trail of Queen Victoria in the Highlands (On the Trail of), Edinburgh: Luath Press Limited, →ISBN, chapter 5 (The Long Goodbye: Mrs Brown’s Travels), page 111:
   • Mid-morning, and the town council greeted incoming dignitaries at the railway station. Noon, and Mrs Hodgson arrived and encarriaged. The foot-goers fell in behind the Cornet (in full Common Riding costume) for the procession through the town: a flute band, a saxhorn band, a masonic lodge, the police, common Hawickians, officials from Carlisle and Edinburgh, the press, the clergy, Members of Parliament, the band of the 16th Lancers. 1983, Dick Sullivan, “The Making of Hawick”, in Navvyman, London: Coracle Books, →ISBN, page 106:

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