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engirdlement en · NOUN

Etymology

From engirdle + -ment.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The act of surrounding, enclosing, or encircling something; the act of engirdling.
    • "Eudemus tells us in his History of Astronomy, that Oinopides first discovered the engirdlement of the zodiac." 1953, B. L. van der Waerden, “History of the Zodiac”, in Archiv für Orientforschung, volume 16, page 225: