enarch
English
editEtymology 1
editVerb
editenarch (third-person singular simple present enarches, present participle enarching, simple past and past participle enarched)
- (obsolete) To arch.
- 1420-1422, John Lydgate, Siege of Thebes
- And in a porche bilt of square stonys,
Ful myghtely enarched envyroun,
Wher the domys and plees of the toun
Weren execut and lawes of the kyng
- And in a porche bilt of square stonys,
- 1420-1422, John Lydgate, Siege of Thebes
- Alternative form of inarch (“to graft without separating from the roots”)
Etymology 2
editNoun
editenarch
- Alternative form of énarque
References
edit- “enarch”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.