to make golden or cover with a golden appearance; to brighten or illuminate as if with gold.
From en- (to cause to be) plus golden (from Old English gold plus -en, meaning made of or resembling gold). This verb was more common in medieval and Renaissance English poetry to describe making something shine like gold.
Poets like Edmund Spenser used this word to describe how sunlight engoldens the landscape, creating a visual and emotional effect that the simpler phrase 'makes golden' just doesn't capture—it suggests transformation and radiance in one word.
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