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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

enshelter en · VERB

Etymology

From en- + shelter.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete) To shelter.
    • If that the Turkish Fleete Be not enshelter'd, and embay'd, they are drown'd c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
ensheltering Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
enshelters Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
ensheltered Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
ensheltered Tense=Past lexicographic