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Webster 1913 Edition


Cincture

Cinc′ture

,
Noun.
[L.
cinctura
, fr.
cingere
,
cinctum
, to gird.]
1.
A belt, a girdle, or something worn round the body, – as by an ecclesiastic for confining the alb.
2.
That which encompasses or incloses; an inclosure.
“Within the cincture of one wall.”
Bacon.
3.
(Arch.)
The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column.

Webster 1828 Edition


Cincture

CINCTURE

, n.
1.
A belt, a girdle, or something worn round the body.
2.
That which encompasses, or incloses.
3.
In architecture, a ring or list at the top and bottom of a column, separating the shaft at one end from the base; at the other, from the capital. It is supposed to be in imitation of the girths or ferrils anciently used to strengthen columns.

Definition 2024


cincture

cincture

English

Noun

cincture (plural cinctures)

  1. An enclosure, or the act of enclosing, encircling or encompassing
  2. A girdle or belt, especially as part of a vestment
    • 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming Pool Library, Penguin Books (1988), page 161
      In one, dated eighteen years ago, he appeared, wearing only sandals and a cincture of vine leaves, between two classical garden statues.
  3. (architecture) The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column.

Translations

Verb

cincture (third-person singular simple present cinctures, present participle cincturing, simple past and past participle cinctured)

  1. to girdle, circle, or surround

Translations


Latin

Participle

cinctūre

  1. vocative masculine singular of cinctūrus