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Meaning of encarriage | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. To put aboard a carriage.
    literary, rare, transitive
  2. To board a carriage.
    intransitive, literary, rare

Examples

“They got the “draps;” then they encarriaged themselves again and turned their despairing steed homeward.”
“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.”
“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.”
“But wait! My woman encarriaged returneth, / Her body now supple'd delighted from eastern magic.”
“When the officials arrived Admiral Sperry was earnestly begged to encarriage again for a short drive to give the populace who arrived later a final greeting.”
“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.”
“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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