enform

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verb

To form; to fashion; to shape

OriginFrench enformer →
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Meanings

verbenform (third-person singular simple present enforms, present participle enforming, simple past and past participle enformed)

present singular third person enforms · participle present enforming · participle past enformed · past enformed

  1. obsoletetransitiveliteral or figurativeTo form; to fashion; to shape

    And in the minds of men had great insight ; Which with sage counsel , when they went astray , He could enform, and them reduce aright

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Frenchenformer
  2. Englishenform

From French enformer. See inform.

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APA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “enform,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/enform.

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