encarriage

English

Etymology

From en- +‎ carriage. Compare entrain.

Verb

encarriage (third-person singular simple present encarriages, present participle encarriaging, simple past and past participle encarriaged)

  1. (literary, rare) To board or put aboard a carriage.
    • 1916 September, Effie Graham, “Too ‘Smaht’ to Live”, in Aunt Liza’s “Praisin’ Gate”, Chicago, Ill.: A. C. McClurg & Co., →OCLC, pages 83–84:
      They got the “draps;” then they encarriaged themselves again and turned their despairing steed homeward.
    • 1983, Dick Sullivan, “The Making of Hawick”, in Navvyman, London: Coracle Books, →ISBN, page 106:
      Mid-morning, and the town council greeted incoming dignitaries at the railway station. Noon, and Mrs Hodgson arrived and encarriaged. The foot-goers fell in behind the Cornet (in full Common Riding costume) for the procession through the town: a flute band, a saxhorn band, a masonic lodge, the police, common Hawickians, officials from Carlisle and Edinburgh, the press, the clergy, Members of Parliament, the band of the 16th Lancers.
    • 1995 January 30, Balanone, “Temple Of Set”, in alt.pagan‎[1] (Usenet), archived from the original on 25 February 2025:
      G> These guys are incorrigible.
      G> Please. Don't incorrige them!
      G> :-)
      AHEM! As a member of the Temple of Set I resemble that remark!
      Personally, I'd rather be encarriaged.
      A pun on encouraged.
    • 2000, Ian R[obert] Mitchell, “The Jacobite Tour”, in On the Trail of Queen Victoria in the Highlands (On the Trail of), Edinburgh: Luath Press Limited, →ISBN, chapter 5 (The Long Goodbye: Mrs Brown’s Travels), page 111:
      They then encarriaged, and drove ‘through the very poor long village of Newton More’ towards Cluny Castle, passing ‘miserable little cottages and farmhouses’, to arrive where she had been back in 1847 and nearly bought some property, Loch Laggan.
    • 2008, Milo Yelesiyevich, “Epilogue”, in Wilde About Holmes, New York, N.Y.: Comic Masque, →ISBN, page 326:
      Abbey provided an ancient carriage to carry me from the pierhead, a contractual obligation he fulfilled to encarriage me in the style to which I was accustomed.
    • 2013 July 5, Nat Lipstadt, “For she will be my heroine for all time”, in Hello Poetry‎[2], archived from the original on 28 February 2025:
      But wait! My woman encarriaged returneth, / Her body now supple'd delighted from eastern magic.
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