The Collaborative International Dictionary
Encowl
Encowl \En*cowl"\, v. t.
To make a monk (or wearer of a cowl) of. [R.]
--Drayton.
Wiktionary
encowl
vb. (context transitive English) To clothe in a cowl; to convert to a monk.
Usage examples of "encowl".
Out of the gloom, which pooled oddly in corners as if made up of tangible hangings, emerged a figure so muffled by a thickly folded robe, so encowled about the head, that I could not have said whether I fronted man or woman.