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English
Etymology
From cold + en- -en.[1]
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation
- en·col·den
Verb
encolden (third-person singular simple present encoldens, present participle encoldening, simple past and past participle encoldened)
- (transitive, rare, chiefly literary) Render cold; chill.
Quotations
References
- ^ 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.