Meanings
present singular third person enhalos · present singular third person enhaloes · participle present enhaloing · participle past enhaloed · past enhaloed
- transitiveTo 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 2841 more example
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
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
- Proto-Italic*en
- Proto-Italic*en-
- Latinin-
- Old Frenchen-
- Middle Englishen-
- Englishen-
- Englishhalo
- Englishenhalo
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with enhalo
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