Environ vs Cincture - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between environ and cincture

is that environ is to surround; to encircle while cincture is to girdle, circle or surround.

an enclosure, or the act of enclosing, encircling or encompassing.

(en verb)

To surround; to encircle.

* 1673 , ”:

I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs

By the known rules of antient libertie,

When strait a barbarous noise environs me

Of Owles and Cuckoes, Asses, Apes and Doggs.

* Spenser

Dwelling in a pleasant glade, / With mountains round about environed .

* Shakespeare

Environed he was with many foes.

* John Donne

Environ me with darkness whilst I write.

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(en noun)

An enclosure, or the act of enclosing, encircling or encompassing

A girdle or belt, especially as part of a vestment

* 1988, (Alan Hollinghurst), (The Swimming Pool Library) , Penguin Books (1988), page 161

In one, dated eighteen years ago, he appeared, wearing only sandals and a cincture of vine leaves, between two classical garden statues.

(architecture) The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column.

(cinctur)

to girdle, circle or surround