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Definition of Encircle
1. Verb. Form a circle around. "Encircle the errors"
2. Verb. Bind with something round or circular.
Definition of Encircle
1. v. t. To form a circle about; to inclose within a circle or ring; to surround; as, to encircle one in the arms; the army encircled the city.
Definition of Encircle
1. Verb. (transitive) To surround, form a circle around. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Encircle
1. to form a circle around [v -CLED, -CLING, -CLES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Encircle
Literary usage of Encircle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Seasons by James Thomson (1793)
"... deem'd Evil is no more: The storms of WINTRY TIME will quickly pass, And one
unbounded SPRING encircle all. ..."
2. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1861)
"circular wares, which, after reflection, again encircle the centre. If the point
of disturbance be a little removed from the centre, the intersections of ..."
3. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, Sir W Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1885)
"may work in us that which is pleasing in His sight, and may encircle us with
ever-growing completeness of beauty and strength, until He "present us ..."
4. Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1861)
"... which, after reflection, «sain encircle the centre. If the point of disturbance
1x: a little remove'] from the centre, the intersections of the direct ..."
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