ensearch
English
Etymology
From Middle English enserchen, from Old French encerchier. See search.
Verb
ensearch (third-person singular simple present ensearches, present participle ensearching, simple past and past participle ensearched)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To search; to try to find something.
- (obsolete, transitive) To search for; to seek.
- 1531, Thomas Elyot, Ernest Rhys, editor, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published [1907], →OCLC:
- by all the means you can to ensearch whether there is any meeting intended
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for ensearch in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
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