envi

v. i. [ See Vie. ] To vie; to emulate; to strive. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who envies; one who desires inordinately what another possesses. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To invigorate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OF. envios, F. envieux, fr. L. invidiosus, fr. invidia envy. See Envy, and cf. Invidious. ] 1. Malignant; mischievous; spiteful. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Each envious brier his weary legs doth scratch. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Feeling or exhibiting envy; actuated or directed by, or proceeding from, envy; -- said of a person, disposition, feeling, act, etc.; jealously pained by the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging; -- followed by of, at, and against; as, an envious man, disposition, attack; envious tongues. [ 1913 Webster ]

My soul is envious of mine eye. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

Neither be thou envious at the wicked. Prov. xxiv. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Inspiring envy. [ Obs. or Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He to him leapt, and that same envious gage
Of victor's glory from him snatched away. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Excessively careful; cautious. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

No men are so envious of their health. Jer. Taylor.

-- En"vi*ous*ly, adv. -- En"vi*ous*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ F. ] About; around. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Lord Godfrey's eye three times environ goes. Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Environed p. pr. & vb. n. Environing. ] [ F. environner, fr. environ about, thereabout; pref. en- (L. in) + OF. viron circle, circuit, fr. OF. & F. virer to turn, LL. virare to turn up and down, topsy-turvy. Cf. Veer. ] To surround; to encompass; to encircle; to hem in; to be round about; to involve or envelop. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

n. [ Cf. F. environnement. ] 1. Act of environing; state of being environed. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which environs or surrounds; surrounding conditions, influences, or forces, by which living forms are influenced and modified in their growth and development. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is no friendly environment, this of thine. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to the environment; as, environmental factors. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. of or pertaining to the environment (definition 2); as, environmental pollution; environmental disaster; environmental cleanup; environmental deterioration. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

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)