|
Definition of Engirt
1. v. t. To engird.
Definition of Engirt
1. Verb. (obsolete) To girt; to surround or encircle. ¹
2. Verb. (past participle of engird) ¹
3. Adjective. (rare) Encircled, surrounded. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Engirt
1. engird [v] - See also: engird
Lexicographical Neighbors of Engirt
Literary usage of Engirt
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by Sir William Smith, John Mee Fuller (1893)
"Is alluded to in »Id engirt writers on Materia Medica — hai by wine bceo supposed
no longer to exist. Dr. Lister lament* its loss, believing it to have been ..."
2. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"My body round engirt with misery ; For what's more miserable than ... En and girt
To encircle ; That gold must round engirt these brows of nnu<>. ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1842)
"To talk of a " table" being " spotted, spoil'd, corrupted," and " grossly engirt
with daring infamy" is merely ridiculous ; and to answer that it is a ..."