encowl

en- +‎ cowl

encowl (third-person singular simple present encowls, present participle encowling, simple past and past participle encowled)

1. (transitive) To clothe (as) in a cowl; to make (someone) a monk.
   • 1622, Michael Drayton, The Second Part, or a Continuance of Poly-Olbion‎, London: John Marriott, et al, Song 24, p. 96:

     King Alfred that his Christ he might more surely hold,
     Left his Northumbrian Crowne, and soone became encould,

   • 1655, anonymous poem from the collection The Marrow of Compliments, in A. H. Bullen (ed.), Speculum Amantis, London, 1889, p. 98,

     And is’t not brave when summer’s robes

     Have all the fields encowled

     To have a green gown on the grass

     And wear it uncontroul’d?

• Clowne