emmantle

English

Verb

emmantle (third-person singular simple present emmantles, present participle emmantling, simple past and past participle emmantled)

1. Obsolete form of immantle.
   • 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:

     The World, and this, which by another name men have thought good to call Heaven (under the pourprise and bending cope wherof, all things are emmanteled and covered) beleeve wee ought in all reason to be a God, eternall, unmeasurable, without beginning, and likewise endlesse.

2. Place around as a fortification
   • 1601, Pliny the Elder, translated by Philemon Holland, The Historie of the World:

     Whereby he grew to such wealth, that of late he bequeathed by his last will and testament ten millions of Sesterces unto his native city Marsils toward the fortifications therof, besides the walls that he caused to be built and emmanteled about other towns , which cost him little under the foresaid summe.

Anagrams

• Emmental, metalmen