environ

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. zarf In the neighbourhood; around.

   “Thaboũdant grace of the power deuyne / whiche doth illumyne yͤ world inuyron / Preſerue this audyẽce and cauſe them to inclyne / To charyte this is my petycyon”

2. zarf Almost, nearly.
3. fiil To encircle or surround (someone or something).

   “For now I ſtand as one vpon a rocke, / Inuirond with a wildernes of ſea, / VVho markes the vvaxing tide, grovv vvaue by vvaue, / Expecting euer vvhen ſome enuious ſurge, / VVill in his briniſh bovvels ſvvallow him.”

4. fiil 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, […]”

5. fiil 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.”

6. fiil 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; […]”

7. fiil 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.”

8. fiil 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, […]”

9. fiil 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!”

10. fiil 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.”

11. fiil To travel completely around (a place or thing); to circumnavigate.
12. isim A surrounding area or place (especially of an urban settlement); an environment.

    “Naples and its environs”