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enhalo en · VERB

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Old French en-bor. Middle English en- English en- English halo English enhalo From en- + halo.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To surround something with a halo.
   • I turned and looked down the slope of the hill to where, enhaloed now in birds, stood those other two Martians that I had seen over-night, just as death had overtaken them. 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 284:
   • Does not every bird's eye in its sapphire excellence recall a trusty bénédicité, "speed well,"—the story of lives compressed in two words? Smiles and tears enhalo it, and it surely accelerates our buoyancy of movement to the rivulet, where forget-me-nots—a treasure trove—are garrisoned by King Cup and Spear-grass. 1880, C. J., “Winter and Summer”, in The Sunday Magazine; For Family Reading, London: Isbister and Company Limited:

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