inwreathe

present singular third person inwreathes · participle present inwreathing · participle past inwreathed · past inwreathed · alternative enwreathe

1. obsoletepoetictransitiveTo surround or encompass as with a wreath.

   Nor less the palm of peace inwreathes thy brow

   1726, James Thomson, “Autumn”, in The Seasons

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   It was far down the afternoon; and when all the spearings of the crimson fight were done: and floating in the lovely sunset sea and sky, sun and whale both stilly died together; then, such a sweetness and such plaintiveness, such inwreathing orisons curled up in that rosy air, that it almost seemed as if far over from the deep green convent valleys of the Manilla isles, the Spanish land-breeze, wantonly turned sailor, had gone to sea, freighted with these vesper hymns.

   1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

   Nor diamonds inwreathed with the braids of her hair.

   1883, George Kent, “Love's Wreath”, in The Granite Monthly: A New Hampshire Magazine, volume 6, page 306