Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To make a monk (or wearer of a cowl) of.
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- verb transitive To clothe in a
cowl ; to convert to amonk .
Etymologies
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en- + cowl
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Examples
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It's Brooke himself whom Harvard should encowl, as the leading pioneer of Boston's venture capital industry, splendidly resurgent in the years after World War II.
Economic Principals 2009
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