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- (transitive, rare, chiefly literary) Render cold; chill.
- 1840: Owen Felltham, Resolves, Divine, Moral and Political, ⅩⅬⅦ: Of Death, p125
- The spirits shrink inward, and retire to the anguished heart : as if, like sons pressed from an indulgent father, they would come for a sad valé, from that which was their life’s maintainer : while that in the mean time pants with affrighting pangs ; and the hands and feet, being the most remote from it, are by degrees encoldened to a fashionable clay : as if death crept in at the nails, and by an insensible surprize, suffocated the environed heart.
1909, Harold Brian Steele, Poems of Harold Brian Steele with Biographical Introduction, page 17:Golden and glowing and glowing and golden,
- Hills and sky and hills.
- Warm wind blowing, and blowing encolden,
- Chills and warms and chills.
- Brown are the woods at the base of the hills,
- Brown are the fields where the oat-straws were,
- Gold are the leaves where the sunset wills
- That winds shall stir.
- 2001: Göran Kjellmer, English Studies, Volume 2, Issue 2 (April): Why Weaken But Not *Strongen? On Deadjectival Verbs, pp166–167
- The 24 verb-forming adjectives with more than 100 occurrences in LOB are the following in order of frequency. The corresponding verb in Brown 1963 is given alongside.
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- red redden
- dead deaden
- wide widen
- cold encolden
- dark darken
- deep deepen
- major majorize
- Brown 1963 gives no frequencies, but even if it is obvious to a speaker of English that some of the verbs given are rarely used (ensmall, enfree, biggen), their inclusion in his lists could reasonably be taken as an indication that they exist.
- 2007: Tim Blair, Gore Flanked, on Friday the 16th day of February at 12:05pm; repeated by: “BONZ0”, aus.invest (Google group): Gore Effect Worse Than Ever, on Tuesday the 20th day of March at 2:11am
- Terrifyingly, considering Gore’s ability to encolden any region, his concert sites aren’t limited to city venues:
- One concert will take place in Antarctica, Gore said.