Engirt

adj, verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To girt; to surround or encircle. obsolete
  2. 2
    past participle of engird form-of, participle, past
Adjective
  1. 1
    Encircled, surrounded. rare

    "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."

Synonyms

All synonyms
ingirtingirt

Example

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"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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From en- + girt.

Etymology 2

Inflected forms.

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