engirt
English
Etymology 1
From en- + girt.
Verb
engirt (third-person singular simple present engirts, present participle engirting, simple past and past participle engirted)
- (obsolete) To girt; to surround or encircle.
Etymology 2
Inflected forms.
Verb
engirt
- past participle of engird
Adjective
engirt (comparative more engirt, superlative most engirt)
- (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.
- 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p. 64:
Anagrams
- Ginter, Tengri, Tigner, erting, tinger