rare. [f. EN-1 + CINCTURE.] The process of surrounding as with a girdle; the fact of being so surrounded; concr. an enclosure.
1814. Wordsw., Excursion, V. (1850), 143. The chancel only showed … marks of earthly state … with the Encincture’s special sanctity But ill according.
1881. H. G. Hewlett, in 19th Cent., Aug., 296. The encincture of Kent on two or even three sides with water.
