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Definition of Environed
1. environ [v] - See also: environ
Lexicographical Neighbors of Environed
Literary usage of Environed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. pennsylvania archives by Pennsylvania State Library, Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth (1878)
"... of w"* shall acquaint him, there is 15000 acres taken up for the last year in
the place T. ff. mentioned, environed with Rocks, called the great Swamp. ..."
2. The Connecticut River and the Valley of the Connecticut: Three Hundred and by Edwin Munroe Bacon (1907)
"... Settlements of the Colonial Period — Confined to the Lower Valley for a
Century —The First Settlers completely environed by Savages — The Various Tribes ..."
3. A Monograph, on Privately-illustrated Books: A Plea for Bibliomania by Daniel M. Tredwell (1881)
"... the four walls of his literary fortress, and, like Venus with her Adonis,
deems within this art-environed No dog shall harm him, though a thousand bark. ..."
4. Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq., F. R. S., Secretary to the Admiralty in the by Samuel Pepys, John A. Smith (1828)
"... the whole management of the concerns of the Navy devolved upon him, and he
remained at his post, regardless of the dangers which environed him. ..."
5. The British Herald Or, Cabinet of Armorial Bearings of the Nobility & Gentry ...by Thomas Robson by Thomas Robson (1830)
"GRISEWOOD, [London] ar. a lion pass, environed with a laurel vert, ... Crest, a
demi Hou guard, ar. environed with laurel vert, holding a garb, ..."
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