English edit

Etymology 1 edit

From en- +‎ girt.

Verb edit

engirt (third-person singular simple present engirts, present participle engirting, simple past and past participle engirted)

  1. (obsolete) To girt; to surround or encircle.

Etymology 2 edit

Inflected forms.

Verb edit

engirt

  1. past participle of engird

Adjective edit

engirt (comparative more engirt, superlative most engirt)

  1. (rare) Encircled, surrounded.
    • 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, page 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.

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