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Webster 1913 Edition
Begirt
Be-girt′
,Verb.
T.
To encompass; to begird.
Milton.
Webster 1828 Edition
Begirt
BEGIRT
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Definition 2024
begirt
begirt
English
Verb
begirt (third-person singular simple present begirts, present participle begirting, simple past and past participle begirted or begirt)
- 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Part 5
- and now I had him every way encircled and begirt; and having drawn him home to me, I kept him fast there, as if I had sought to unite bodies with him at that point.
- 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras:
- Who having round begirt the palace, / (As once a moth they do the gallows,) / As members gave the sign about, / Set up their throats with hideous shout.
- (Part 1, Canto 2, Lines 532-535)
- 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Part 5
References
- OED 2nd edition 1989