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Webster 1913 Edition


Engirt

En-girt′

,
Verb.
T.
To engird.
[R.]
Collins.

Webster 1828 Edition


Engirt

ENGIRT'

,
pp.
Surrounded; encompassed.

Definition 2024


engirt

engirt

English

Verb

engirt (third-person singular simple present engirts, present participle engirting, simple past and past participle engirted)

  1. (obsolete) To girt; to surround or encircle.

Etymology 2

Inflected forms.

Verb

engirt

  1. past participle of engird

Adjective

engirt (comparative more engirt, superlative most engirt)

  1. (rare) Encircled, surrounded.
    • 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p. 64:
      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.