Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To encircle; engird.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To engird.
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- verb Past participle of
engird - adjective rare
Encircled ,surrounded . - verb obsolete To
girt ; tosurround orencircle .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Guido seeing himselfe round engirt with them, sodainly thus replyed: Gentlemen, you may use mee in your owne house as you please.
The Decameron 2004
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Pedro all this while sitting in the Tree, so full of griefe, as no man could be more; about the houre of midnight (by the bright splendour of the Moone) espied about some twenty Wolves, who, so soone as they got a sight of the Horse, ran and engirt him round about.
The Decameron 2004
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So that by often winding and turning about, as the passage appeared troublesome to him, when he thought him selfe free and furthest from them, he was round engirt, and seized on by them.
The Decameron 2004
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On the top of all, stood a stately Palace, having a large and spacious Court in the middest round engirt with Galleries, Hals, and Chambers, every one separate alone by themselves, and beautified with
The Decameron 2004
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Now has come a new era, and the evangelistic efforts among the Chinese are assuming greater proportions than ever, and are engirt with every sign of gracious success.
The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 07, July, 1889 Various
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O liberal beyond all Alexanders, seeing thou hast given me only for eight months service the best island that the sea doth compass or engirt!
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Wherefore, even as you have engirt my middle with your arms, so likewise have I tied fast my mind with virtuous and forcible desires that are wholly different from yours, as you shall perceive, if, seeking to force me, you presume to pass further with your inordinate design.
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He, not neglecting so a weighty a business, horsing himself with a seemly troop of his own attendants, and calling to his assistance so many as in discretion was thought meet, having likewise in his company Sir Edward Bromlie, on Monday, Jan. 20 last, by break of day, did engirt and round beat the house of Mayster Thomas
Secret Chambers and Hiding Places Historic, Romantic, & Legendary Stories & Traditions About Hiding-Holes, Secret Chambers, Etc. Allan Fea 1908
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Citadel on Cape Diamond and engirt the whole city on the hillside, seemed imposing enough to us in those days.
Lords of the North 1903
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The two white men were engirt with a mystery that defended them from all harm.
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