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Spenser.

4. Excessively careful; cautious. [Obs.]

No men are so envious of their health.

Jer. Taylor.

-- En"vi*ous*ly, adv. -- En"vi*ous*ness, n.

En*vi"ron (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Environed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Environing.] [F. environner, fr. environ about, thereabout; pref. en- (L. in) + OF. viron circle, circuit, fr. OF. & F. virer to turn, LL. virare to turn up and down, topsy-turvy. Cf. Veer.] To surround; to encompass; to encircle; to hem in; to be round about; to involve or envelop.

Dwelling in a pleasant glade, With mountains round about environed.

Spenser.

Environed he was with many foes.

Shak.

Environ me with darkness whilst I write.

Donne.

En*vi"ron, adv. [F.] About; around. [Obs.]

Lord Godfrey's eye three times environ goes.

Fairfax.

En*vi"ron*ment (?), n. [Cf. F. environnement.] 1. Act of environing; state of being environed.

2. That which environs or surrounds; surrounding conditions, influences, or forces, by which living forms are influenced and modified in their growth and development.

It is no friendly environment, this of thine.

Carlyle.

En*vi"rons (?; 277), n. pl. [F.] The parts or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood; suburbs; as, the environs of a city or town. Chesterfield.

En*vis"age (?; 48), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Envisaged (?; 48); p. pr. & vb. n. Envisaging (?).] [F. envisager; pref. en- (L. in) + visage face, visage. See Visage.] To look in the face of; to apprehend; to regard. [R.] Keats.

From the very dawn of existence the infant must envisage self, and body acting on self.

McCosh.

En*vis"age*ment (?), n. The act of envisaging.

En*vol"ume (?), v. t. To form into, or incorporate with, a volume. [R.]

En*vol"up (?), v. t. [See Envelop.] To wrap up; to envelop. [Obs.] Chaucer.

En"voy (?), n. [F. envoyé envoy, fr. envoyer to send; pref. en- (L. in) + voie way, L. via: cf. F. envoi an envoy (in sense 2). See Voyage, and cf. Invoice.] 1. One dispatched upon an errand or mission; a messenger; esp., a person deputed by a sovereign or a government to negotiate a treaty, or transact other business, with a foreign sovereign or government; a minister accredited to a foreign government. An envoy's rank is below that of an ambassador.

2. [F. envoi, fr. envoyer to send.] An explanatory or commendatory postscript to a poem, essay, or book; -- also in the French from, l'envoi.