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Definition of Encaved
1. encave [v] - See also: encave
Lexicographical Neighbors of Encaved
Literary usage of Encaved
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John by Elisha Kent Kane (1856)
"We were completely encaved. Just as we had brought in the last boat, the Red
Eric, and were shoring her up with blocks of ice, ..."
2. Letters of George Meredith by George Meredith (1912)
"Anon, encaved in wall A fount arrests him, sculpture wrought After a Saracen
design— Ruinous now and arid all Save dusty weeds which trail or twine. ..."
3. Journal of the British Archaeological Association by British Archaeological Association (1861)
"... Of [a] day [he] was at fishing, encaved in grave sacredness"; which, in modern
orthography and idiom, may be read,— " Lewy, who died in the sea On a day ..."
4. The Life of John Howard: With Comments on His Character and Philanthropic by John Field (1850)
"Instead of being lodged in barracks, or even encamped, as the troops of other
countries, they were encaved, and buried in damp and dismal holes covered with ..."
5. The Vaunt of Man: And Other Poems by William Ellery Leonard (1912)
"... In those lamp-lit aerial crypts, Piled with our books and manuscripts — So
far above the flash and roar We seemed encaved forevermore Upon some cliff or ..."
6. Arctic Explorations in Search of Sir John Franklin by Elisha Kent Kane (1885)
"We were completely encaved. scaling tue whole sixteen of us uniting at each pull.
We were too much the Ice- , 11111 • Just as we had brought in the last ..."
7. Journal by Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (1873)
"... encaved in grave-sacredness In the above rendering Mr. Williams has committed
the same error as the previous translator, making an R of the Q in the ..."
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