enculȝe

enculȝe

Scots

Etymology

Compare English accoil.

Noun

enculȝe (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, rare) coaxing
   • c. 1390, "St Thecla", in William Musham Metcalfe (Ed.), Legends of the saints: in the Scottish dialect of the fourteenth century, 1896:

     Quhen he saw he sped nathing for his enculȝe or entysing.

Usage notes

• The word is only recorded once and the precise meaning is uncertain.

References

• "† enculȝe, n.". OED Online. March 2013. Oxford University Press. 25 March 2013