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enridge en · VERB

Etymology

From en- + ridge.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To form ridges on.
   • Different approaches are possible in order to enridge the embedded control system, for example adapting the sampling frequency online, feedback scheduling, stability analysis of the complex loops of the disturbances and event driven control. 2005, M Snoeren, Analysis of varying sampling frequency in controller algorithms (Master of Science Thesis, Eindhoven University of Technology):
   • As I stood here below, methought his eyes Were two full moons; he had a thousand noses, Horns whelk’d and wav’d like the enridged sea. It was some fiend. c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi]:
   • New frenzy rages through his swelling veins; His blood-shot eyes roll in fierce agony; And cruel welts enridge his furrowed sides; Foaming with bloody sweat, and with gay ribbons Mocked. 1868, Henry Mills Alden, “Harper's New Monthly Magazine - Volume 36”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 5:
   • A perfect curve of shin from bated knees to toes; More perfect still the muscles that enridge the thigh, The subtle skeins of blue that ward each folded eye, And open lips fatigued — at once her fears are fled; 1994, Arnold Klein, Monica, →ISBN, page 47:
   • 1893, Francis Thompson, “To My Godchild, Francis M. W. M.” in Poems, London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, p. 74, Pass where beneath their rangèd gonfalons The starry cohorts shake their shielded suns, The dreadful mass of their enridgèd spears;

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