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- adjective archaic Made from (a material).
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Examples
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Like stars in clouds by the weak winds enwrought, —
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She was dressed in white, embroidered and spangled with rich silver lace; a silk girdle, enwrought and tasseled with gold, surrounded her waist; her hair was unadorned except by a wreath of artificial flowers, studded by a single diamond.
Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father Daniel Jackson
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Three coils of frozen rain, three of watery mist they had enwrought in it, three of ruddy fire and winged south wind; now they were mingling in their work the awful splendours, the sound and terror, and the
The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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Her fair children enwrought from the tissue of thought --
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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Now, as he spoke, up came the sun, turning lowering sky and tempestuous ocean to glory; every ragged cloud became as it were streaming banners enwrought of scarlet and gold, every foaming billow a rolling splendour rainbow-capped, insomuch that I stood awed by the very beauty of it all.
Black Bartlemy's Treasure Jeffery Farnol 1915
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Catholic idea of penance or expiation is the moral theme enwrought with the story.
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886
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It was Westmoreland in its remoter, gentler aspect -- Westmoreland far away from the dust of coaches and hotels -- an untouched pastoral land, enwrought with a charm and sweetness none can know but those who love and linger.
Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume II Humphry Ward 1885
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"Queer, dear old hovel!" she exclaimed, sinking languidly upon a tabouret, and fanning herself exhaustedly, while the mantua-maker opened her boxes, and laid out her sample breadths of richly decorated brocade, or silver and gold enwrought satin.
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These are too deeply engrained and enwrought into the very texture of our being for that to be possible.
Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke Alexander Maclaren 1868
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So the promise to us is of a great Spirit that will come, and by communicating His warmth will dissipate our foulness, and the sins that are enwrought into the substance of our natures will exhale from the heated surface, and disappear.
Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke Alexander Maclaren 1868
bilby commented on the word enwrought
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
- W.B. Yeats, 'Aedh wishes for the Cloths of Heaven'.
September 18, 2009
sionnach commented on the word enwrought
did you know that the aging Yeats submitted himself to the infamous 'monkey-gland' treatment in an effort to salvage his fading virility? But then, so did H.L. Mencken.
September 18, 2009