Meaning of umbelap | Babel Free

Definitions

To enshroud, to envelop; to surround.

obsolete, transitive

Examples

“For hit is a figure that haldes · five pointes, / And eche line umbelappes · and loukes in other, / And aywhere hit is endeles; · and Englich hit callen / Overal, as I here, · the endles knot.”

For it [the emblem on Gawain’s shield, a pentagram] is a shape that has five points, / And each line overlaps and crosses another, / And everywhere it is endless, so in English it is called / Everywhere, as far as I know, "the endless knot".

“& þerfor godis wretħ on þame is sched, & rightwys venieans, with grete ferisnes of turmetis vmbelappyng.”

And therefore God's wrath on them is shed, and righteous vengeance, with great fierceness of torments umbelapping.

“This 12 Feb. [Julian calendar] "at morn was un belapped on every side with our enemies the captain of Carlisle and gentlemen of our country of Westmoreland, and hath destroyed and slain many of our brethren and neighbours."”

“Thus am I wrapped / And in woe umbelapped, / Such love hath me trapped, / Without any cure.”

“That is: the waymenting of death hath umbelapped me, and the sorrows of hell have environed me.”

“[T]hou shalt find but a dark image and a painful of thine own soul […] umbelapped with black stinking clothes of sin […] a body of sin and a body of death […]”

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