v. t.
Dwelling in a pleasant glade,
With mountains round about environed. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
Environed he was with many foes. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Environ me with darkness whilst I write. Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. [ F. ] About; around. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Lord Godfrey's eye three times environ goes. Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. environnement. ]
It is no friendly environment, this of thine. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj.
THOUSANDS of dead fish and other marine species, suffocated by a rotting, glutinous morass which spreads over kilometres of coral reefs.
This scenario has all the hallmarks of a unnatural environmental disaster resulting from environmental negligence. However this isn't the case, instead the cause -- coral spawn slick deoxygenation -- is a natural event which has the potential to occur periodically on the reefs of the West Pilbara. Michael Borowitzka (“Natural event spawns environmental disaster” in Murdoch News, October 12, 1995)
n. pl. [ F. ] The parts or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood; suburbs;