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enframe

[ en-freym ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to provide with a frame or border:

    The workmen enframed the window with mahogany.

  2. to enclose:

    Three small bedrooms enframe the central area.

  3. to fix or shape:

    Our surroundings give us a set of relationships that enframe our thoughts.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of enframe1

First recorded in 1840–45; en- 1( def ) frame ( def ) (verb)
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Example Sentences

Between these aspects98 of nature and the works of man which they enframe, there is a striking general sympathy.

The paving stones are usually finished quite neatly and smoothly where their edges enframe the firepit.

Many of these terms are defined in such a way that they enframe that which they discuss.

Male and female figures, representing rivers, lying on a bed of roses, enframe the arched pediment which surmounts the grotto.

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