engirt

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: en-girt
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Meaning

verb

To girt; to surround or encircle.

Obsolete

verb

past participle of engird

adj

Encircled, surrounded.

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

From en- + girt.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: en

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

engirts (present, singular) engirting (participle, present) engirted (participle, past) engirted (past) more engirt (comparative) most engirt (superlative)

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