circumvest

English

Etymology

From Latin circumvestire, from circum (“around”) + vestire (“to clothe”).

Verb

circumvest (third-person singular simple present circumvests, present participle circumvesting, simple past and past participle circumvested)

1. (obsolete) To cover round, as with a garment; to invest.
   • 1642, Henry Wotton, A Short View of the Life and Death of George Villiers:

     Circumvested with much prejudice.

References

“circumvest”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.