Fromen- +cowl.
encowl (third-person singular simple presentencowls,present participleencowling,simple past and past participleencowled)
- (transitive) To clothe (as) in acowl; to make (someone) amonk.
1622,Michael Drayton,The Second Part, or a Continuance ofPoly-Olbion[1], London: John Marriott, et al,Song 24, p. 96:KingAlfred that hisChrist he might more surely hold,
Left hisNorthumbrian Crowne, and soone becameencould,
- 1655, anonymous poem from the collectionThe Marrow of Compliments, inA. H. Bullen (ed.),Speculum Amantis, London, 1889, p. 98,[2]
- And is’t not brave when summer’s robes
- Have all the fieldsencowled
- To have a green gown on the grass
- And wear it uncontroul’d?
