enode

English

Etymology

From Latin enodare, from e (“out”) + nodare (“to fill with knots”), from nodus (“a knot”).

Verb

enode (third-person singular simple present enodes, present participle enoding, simple past and past participle enoded)

1. (obsolete) To clear of knots; to make clear.
   • 1684, Samuel Willard, Mercy magnified on a penitent prodigal:

     Riddles which require great study to enode them.

References

• “enode”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• donee