envein

E1N1V4E1I1N1

verb

To pass throughout as, or like, veins (compare vasculate).

Scrabble 9

Meanings

verbenvein (third-person singular simple present enveins, present participle enveining, simple past and past participle enveined)

present singular third person enveins · participle present enveining · participle past enveined · past enveined

  1. literaryuncommonTo 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
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    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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APA

envein. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/envein

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Chicago

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