ensweep

From en- +‎ sweep.

ensweep (third-person singular simple present ensweeps, present participle ensweeping, simple past and past participle enswept)

1. (rare, transitive) To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly or to sweep up.
   • a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Autumn”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:

     A blaze of meteors shoot: ensweeping first
     The lower skies

• “ensweep”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.