environ

environadv詞源 1/ɪnˈvaɪɹən/

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  obsoleteIn the neighbourhood; around.

  • Thaboũdant grace of the power deuyne / whiche doth illumyne yͤ world inuyron / Preſerue this audyẽce and cauſe them to inclyne / To charyte this is my petycyon
  • Lord Godfreyes eie three times enuiron goes, / To vievv vvhat count'nance euerie vvarriour beares, […]
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  obsoleteAlmost, nearly.

environverb詞源 2/ɪnˈvaɪɹən/

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  obsoleteTo encircle or surround (someone or something).

  • For now I ſtand as one vpon a rocke, / Inuirond with a wildernes of ſea, / VVho markes the vvaxing tide, grovv vvaue by vvaue, / Expecting euer vvhen ſome enuious ſurge, / VVill in his briniſh bovvels ſvvallow him.
  • Into that foreſt farre they thence him led, / VVhere vvas their dvvelling, in a pleaſant glade, / VVith mountaines rovvnd about enuironed, / And mightie vvoodes, vvhich did the valley ſhade, […]
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  obsoletegovernmentmilitarypoliticsTo encircle or surround (someone or something).

  • The Erle in good haſte departed thence to Penbroke, whome incontinent Morgan Thomas, by king Edwards commaundement ſo ſtrongly beſieged, and ſo enuironed his Caſtell with a ditche and a trench, that he could not lightly flie or eſcape thence, […]
  • Philopœmen fearinge to be enuironned, and being deſirous to bring his men ſafe home againe, vvho moſt of loue had follovved him: beganne to marche avvay through narrovv buſhy places, him ſelfe being in the rerevvard, and turned oftentimes vpon his enemies, […]
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  obsoletegovernmentheraldryhobbiesTo encircle or surround (someone or something).

  • Az[ure], an annulet environing a barrulet, betw[een] two bars and in chief a cross patty fitchy or.
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  obsoleteTo cover, enclose, or envelop (someone or something).

  • Farre off a hill and mountaine high they ſpide, / VVhoſe top the cloudes enuiron, cloath and hide; […]
  • Thus like a Nun, not like a Princeſſe borne, / Deſcended from the Royall Henries loynes: / Liue I inuironed in a houſe of ſtone, […]
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  obsoleteFollowed by from: to hide or shield (someone or something).

  • Lonely her fate was, / Environed from sight / In the house where the gate was / Past finding at night.
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  obsoleteOf a person: to be positioned or stationed around (someone or something) to attend to or protect them.

  • [A]ll of them, upon an aſſociation made in the night, agreed to ſide vvith him, vvith aſſurance of ſafe conduct being gladly admitted unto them, environed he vvas vvith a multitude thronged together of vendible or ſale ſouldiors, […]
  • O moſt high God, who keepeſt all things whether high or low, and environeſt every creature; ſancti†fie and bleſs† theſe Creatures of lime and ſand; Through Chriſt our Lord, Amen.
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  obsoleteOf a situation or state of affairs, especially danger or trouble: to happen to and affect (someone or something).

  • Ay me! what perils do environ / The Man that meddles with cold Iron!
  • [S]he knew not one person to whose protection she could have recourse, from the inexpressible woes that environed her: […]
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  obsoleteTo amount to or encompass (a space).

  • Tendaia (vvhich firſt obtained the Philippine title) enuironeth a hundred and ſixtie leagues, from tvvelue to fifteene degrees of latitude: the people Idolatrous, abounding vvith Pepper, Ginger, Gold, and Mynes.

environnoun詞源 3/ɪnˈvaɪɹən/

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  obsoleteformalA surrounding area or place (especially of an urban settlement); an environment.

  • Naples and its environs
  • I got up to yᵉ Towre, whence we had a prospect towards Duresme, and could see Rippon, part of Lancashire, the famous and fatal Marston Moore, yᵉ Spaws of Knaresborough, and all the environs of that admirable country.