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engirt

verb

Etymology

From en- + girt.

  1. inherited from girten
  2. prefixed as engirt — “en + girt”

Definitions

  1. To girt

    To girt; to surround or encircle.

  2. past participle of engird

  3. Encircled, surrounded.

    • They noted too his cavalier way with the facts of a case, and his ability to twist the most mundane judicial dictum into the pronouncement of some engirt tyrant, whose fortress he and he alone must storm.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA