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enshaded

Verb
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Covered in shade or darkness. It is a poetic, uncommon form meaning made shadowed.

Detailed Definition
This is a rare poetic verb form built from shade, meaning to cover or darken. Keats uses it to deepen the sense of sleep as a gentle dimming or veiling of consciousness.
Example
Example in poetry:
Keats writes of sleep “Enshaded in forgetfulness divine,” using enshaded for covered or sheltered by shade; “The garden path lay enshaded beneath old yews” gives the verb a literal setting; “Enshaded by memory, the photograph dimmed” makes shadow psychological; Romantic poetry often uses shade and sleep to suggest retreat from conscious pain
Additional Notes
"Enshaded" is an unusual poetic word in the line "Enshaded in forgetfulness divine," and most readers would need to look it up.; Found in the poem, To Sleep by John Keats
Also Known As
shadowed cloaked shrouded veiled
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