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Webster 1913 Edition


Encolden

En-cold′en

,
Verb.
T.
To render cold.
[Obs.]

Definition 2024


encolden

encolden

English

Verb

encolden (third-person singular simple present encoldens, present participle encoldening, simple past and past participle encoldened)

  1. (transitive, rare, chiefly literary) Render cold; chill.

Quotations

  • For usage examples of this term, see Citations:encolden.

References

  1. The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language by John Ogilvie (1883) states that encolden was formed by the simultaneous prefixing of en- and suffixing of -en.