[f. prec. + -MENT.] The action of enswathing, or the condition of being enswathed: concr. that in which anything is enswathed or enfolded. Also fig.
1877. Blackie, Wise Men, 65. All vital power … in moist enswathement grows.
1883. H. Drummond, Nat. Law in Spir. W., vii. (1884), 225. We … define the soul as an invisible enswathement of the body.
1887. E. C. Dawson, Life Bp. Hannington, 27. The cramping enswathements of the Roman system.
