[f. prec.] trans. To girdle, gird; to encircle, encompass, surround.
1791. E. Darwin, Bot. Gard., II. 92. Twenty Priests … Cinctured with ephods.
1831. Fraser’s Mag., III. 181. The fire, whose bright etherial ray Cinctures with immortality the soul.
1872. Blackie, Lays Highl., 8. A … barren Country Cinctured by the ocean grey.
1875. Longf., Pandora, I. Thus her hair was cinctured.
Hence Cinctured ppl. a., girdled.
1757. Gray, Progr. Poesy, ii. 2. Their feather-cinctur’d chief.
1791. Cowper, Iliad, V. 1018. His cinctured waist.
1841. W. Spalding, Italy & It. Isl., I. 33. Long cinctured robes.
