enform

English

Etymology

From French enformer. See inform.

Verb

enform (third-person singular simple present enforms, present participle enforming, simple past and past participle enformed)

(obsolete, transitive) To form; to fashion.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  And in the minds of men had great insight ;
  Which with sage counsel , when they went astray ,
  He could enform, and them reduce aright

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “enform”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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