What is "envelops"

Usage examples of "envelops".

Thus, for example, the paleomammalian brain includes and envelops the reptilian brain, but dinosaurs are much bigger than mammals.

This story, I think, would have delighted Foucault, for it envelops all his theses on sex and power.

Yet the vastness of His love-so high, so wide, so deep, so long-envelops us like the endless universe envelops a crude little planet God first called Earth.