Engirt vs Engird - What's the difference?
engirt | engird |
(rare) Encircled, surrounded.
* 1992 , Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 64:
As verbs the difference between engirt and engird
is that engirt is to girt; to surround or encircle while engird is to ingirt.As an adjective engirt
is encircled, surrounded.engirt
English
Etymology 1
From .Etymology 2
Inflected forms.Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.