envault

English

Etymology

en- +‎ vault

Verb

envault (third-person singular simple present envaults, present participle envaulting, simple past and past participle envaulted)

1. (transitive) To enclose in a vault; to entomb.
   • 1732, Jonathan Swift, Conclusion From These Epigrams, With Dr. Swift's Answer:

     I wonder, good man, that you are not envaulted;
     Prithee go, and be dead, and be doubly exalted

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “envault”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)