to cover with gold or make something gold in color or appearance.
From the prefix en- (meaning to cause to be) combined with the noun gold. This Old English-derived word follows the pattern of verbs created by adding en- to color or metal names, such as enliven or enrich.
This is a poetic and archaic verb that fell out of common use, but it perfectly demonstrates how English speakers in earlier centuries could create verbs from almost any noun by adding the 'en-' prefix—a creative flexibility that modern English has mostly abandoned in favor of phrases like 'to make golden' instead.
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