English Dictionary

environ

/ɪnˈvaɪɹ(ə)n/

verb

(often military) To encircle or surround (someone or something) so as to attack from all sides; to beset.

We should all do our part to environ the planet.

意味（1）

(often military) To encircle or surround (someone or something) so as to attack from all sides; to beset.

The Erle in good haste departed thence to Penbroke, whome incontinent Morgan Thomas, by king Edwards commaundement so strongly besieged, and so enuironed his Castell with a ditche and a trench, that he could not lightly flie or escape thence, […]

意味（2）

(heraldry, chiefly passive, obsolete) To encircle or surround (a heraldic element such as a charge or escutcheon (shield)).

Az[ure], an annulet environing a barrulet, betw[een] two bars and in chief a cross patty fitchy or.

意味（3）

To cover, enclose, or envelop (someone or something).

Farre off a hill and mountaine high they ſpide, / VVhoſe top the cloudes enuiron, cloath and hide; […]

意味（4）

Followed by from: to hide or shield (someone or something).

Lonely her fate was, / Environed from sight / In the house where the gate was / Past finding at night.

意味（5）

(chiefly passive) Of a person: to be positioned or stationed around (someone or something) to attend to or protect them.

[A]ll of them, upon an aſſociation made in the night, agreed to ſide vvith him, vvith aſſurance of ſafe conduct being gladly admitted unto them, environed he vvas vvith a multitude thronged together of vendible or ſale ſouldiors, […]

意味（6）

(figuratively) Of a situation or state of affairs, especially danger or trouble: to happen to and affect (someone or something).

Ay me! what perils do environ / The Man that meddles with cold Iron!

意味（7）

To amount to or encompass (a space).

Tendaia (vvhich firſt obtained the Philippine title) enuironeth a hundred and ſixtie leagues, from tvvelue to fifteene degrees of latitude: the people Idolatrous, abounding vvith Pepper, Ginger, Gold, and Mynes.

意味（8）

To travel completely around (a place or thing); to circumnavigate.