Envillaged

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Turned into, or reduced to, a village. nonce-word, not-comparable, obsolete

    "There on a goodly plain, by time thrown down, / Lies buried in his dust some ancient town; / Who now envillaged, there 's only seen / In his vast ruins what his state had been: […]"

Example

More examples

"There on a goodly plain, by time thrown down, / Lies buried in his dust some ancient town; / Who now envillaged, there 's only seen / In his vast ruins what his state had been: […]"

Etymology

From en- + village + -ed.

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