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/ˌʌmbɪˈlæp/ · verb
(transitive, obsolete, chiefly in modern translations) To enshroud, to envelop; to surround..
For hit is a figure that haldes · five pointes, / And eche line umbelappes · and loukes in other, / And aywhere hit is endeles; · and Englich hit callen / Overal, as I here, · the endles knot.
& þerfor godis wretħ on þame is sched, & rightwys venieans, with grete ferisnes of turmetis vmbelappyng.
This 12 Feb. [Julian calendar] "at morn was un belapped on every side with our enemies the captain of Carlisle and gentlemen of our country of Westmoreland, and hath destroyed and slain many of our brethren and neighbours."
Thus am I wrapped / And in woe umbelapped, / Such love hath me trapped, / Without any cure.
That is: the waymenting of death hath umbelapped me, and the sorrows of hell have environed me.
[T]hou shalt find but a dark image and a painful of thine own soul […] umbelapped with black stinking clothes of sin […] a body of sin and a body of death […]
Use umbelap when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Umbelap means (transitive, obsolete, chiefly in modern translations) To enshroud, to envelop; to surround..
Common synonyms include belap, encompass, enwrap, lap.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
For hit is a figure that haldes · five pointes, / And eche line umbelappes · and loukes in other, / And aywhere hit is endeles; · and Englich hit callen / Overal, as I here, · the endles knot.
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