Terms vs Engirt - What's the difference?
terms | engirt |
(rare) Encircled, surrounded.
* 1992 , Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 64:
As a noun terms
is .As a verb engirt is
(obsolete) to girt; to surround or encircle or engirt can be .As an adjective engirt is
(rare) 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.