encowl

Etymology

From en- + cowl.

encowl means to clothe (as) in a cowl; to make (someone) a monk. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.

verb

To clothe (as) in a cowl; to make (someone) a monk.“King Alfred that his Christ he might more surely hold, Left his Northumbrian Crowne, and soone became encould,”