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, literal or figurative) To form; to fashion; to shape
- 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
References
- “enform”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.