engirt
English
editEtymology 1
editVerb
editengirt (third-person singular simple present engirts, present participle engirting, simple past and past participle engirted)
Etymology 2
editInflected forms.
Verb
editengirt
- past participle of engird
Adjective
editengirt (comparative more engirt, superlative most engirt)
- (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.