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envein en · VERB

Etymology

From en- + vein.

Meanings

1. (literary, uncommon) To pass throughout as, or like, veins (compare vasculate).
   • Regal virtues envein the plumes of its avian composure, evinced in its lordly, though companionable, aplomb;[…] 2021 August 30, Bruce Merritt, Moon Gate, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:
   • The petals are interwoven with nadis, minute nerve and force channels; some clairvoyants say the nadis create the petal shapes, others than they envein them. 2009 04, Richard Leviton, Santa Fe Light, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 482:
   • […] As Fédida comments, an “[a]nimist animalisation” passes through the composition of lines, and by such a novel “technique” the image “enveins” [fibrille]⁷⁸ its […] 2024, N. Isar, “Elemental States of Image: Elan, Pulsion, Rapt, Rupture, Caesura, and Syncopation”, in Phenomenology, New Materialism, and Advances in the Pulsatile Imaginary:

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