englut
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Partly from Old French englotir, partly from en- + glut.
Verb[edit]
englut (third-person singular simple present engluts, present participle englutting, simple past and past participle englutted)
- To swallow; to swallow up, engulf.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Whose grieued mindes, which choler did englut, / Against themselues turning their wrathfull spight, / Gan with new rage their shields to hew and cut […]
- 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter II, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 13:
- Thus, as carnivorous vultures watch to englut their prey, the rapacious rebels enjoyed a savage delight in the hope of ensnaring him, […]
- To glut, satiate.