encover
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encover (third-person singular simple present encovers, present participle encovering, simple past and past participle encovered)
- (rare) To cover.
- 1961, Berichte - Volume 2:
- A series of interrupted sutures of No. 1 catgut are now inserted into the fascia layer immediately below the vaginal epithelium. These encover the thread sutures and further reinforce the action of the thread "sling".
- 1998, Journal of the Oriental Institute - Volume 47, page 63:
- The difference between the two is that the Kānvas conclude with only the statement that by ācamana, the prāṇa itself is encovered or enclothed, while the Mādhyandinas further add the injuction.
- 2008, Donald E. Wagner, Kenneth Cragg, Dying in the Land of Promise, page 116:
- The theme can be expressed in an architectural analogy. For, of all contriving to encover space, the arch — alone or 'circulared' into the dome — is the most ingenious.
- 2010, Olga Sicilia, There Is No Such Thing As a Spirit in the Stone!, page 110:
- Finally, awareness of context and of what concepts can signify or encover in relation to it, requires that we critically examine ...