engirt

verb, adj — 2 senses

verb

Etymology From en- + girt.

Obsolete To girt; to surround or encircle.

adj

Etymology Inflected forms.

Rare Encircled, surrounded.

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, published 2007, page 64:

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