infold
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English infolden, equivalent to in- + fold.
Verb[edit]
infold (third-person singular simple present infolds, present participle infolding, simple past and past participle infolded)
- (transitive) To fold inwards.
- (transitive) To wrap up or inwrap; involve; inclose; enfold or envelop.
- 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto V:
- In words, like weeds, I’ll wrap me o’er,
Like coarsest clothes against the cold:
But that large grief which these enfold
Is given in outline and no more.
- (transitive) To clasp with the arms; embrace.
- 1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:
- Prais’d be the fathomless universe, / For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, / And for love, sweet love—but praise! praise! praise! / For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death.