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third-person singular simple present engarlands, present participle engarlanding, simple past and past participle engarlanded
To encircle with a garland or garlands. quotations examples
Muſes, I oft inuoked your holy ayde, / With choiſeſt flowers my ſpeech to engarland ſo; / That it deſpiſde in true but naked ſhew, / Might winne ſome grace in your ſweet grace arraid.
c. 1580s, Philip Sidney, “Astrophel and Stella”, in Mary Sidney, editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia […], 3rd edition, London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1598, sonnet 55, page 537