enculȝe

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Scots[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Compare English accoil.

Noun[edit]

enculȝe (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete, rare) coaxing
    • c. 1390, “St Thecla”, in William Musham Metcalfe, editor, Legends of the saints: in the Scottish dialect of the fourteenth century, published 1896:
      Quhen he saw he sped nathing for his enculȝe or entysing.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Usage notes[edit]

  • The word is only recorded once and the precise meaning is uncertain.

References[edit]

  • "† enculȝe, n.". OED Online. March 2013. Oxford University Press. 25 March 2013 [1]
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