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engirt en · VERB · etymology 1

Etymology

From en- + girt.

Meanings

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

Forms

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engirts Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
engirted Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
engirted Tense=Past lexicographic
engirting Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

engirt en · ADJ · etymology 2

Etymology

Inflected forms.

Meanings

  1. (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:

Forms

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more engirt Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most engirt Degree=Sup lexicographic

engirt en · VERB · etymology 2

Etymology

Inflected forms.

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) past participle of engird
    form of engird