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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of enframe¹

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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