English edit

Etymology edit

From cold +‎ en- -en.[1]

Pronunciation edit

Hyphenation
en·col·den

Verb edit

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 edit

References edit

  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.