overgird
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
verb
To encapsulate; to encompass and bind together.
noun
Something that encompasses and binds together; an encapsulation.
Example Sentences
- "The left maenad on A and B of the Oxford cup wears the same overgird Doric peplos of Smithsonian, side B and one attributed to the Painter of Athens."
- "Yes, and all wholesome herbs, and all fresh dews, by your violent and hidebound frost; but, when the gentle west winds shall open the fruitful bosom of the earth , thus overgirded by your imprisonment , then the flowers put forth and spring, and then the sun shall scatter the mists, and the manuring hand of the tiller shall root up all that burdens the soil, without thank to your bondage."
- "Perhaps the most important thing to remember, however, is don't overgird. Girding one's loins too tightly can lead to loss of circulation and, in extreme cases, loss of a loin."
- "The flaw with Locke's model is that his identification of black aestheticism was overgirded by the ferment of a single historical moment."
- "She is dressed in a long, overgirt Ionic chiton and a heavy himation, one end of which she holds with her extended right hand."
- "Does swaddling figure in cultural adaptations, such as martial armor (cumbersome, ineffectual), and more irenic transformations, such as the monastic robes (overgirding otherwise scratchy hair-shirts or prickly girdles) and veils, turbans, and wimples among religious that set off the body as inviolable space?"
Etymology
From over- + gird.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: over