[f. ENCIRCLE v. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. ENCIRCLE.

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1632.  Lithgow, Totall Discourse, 265. About it [this chapel], I meane without the vtter sides of it, and the inward incirclings of the compassing Quiere, there are alwayes burning about fifty Lampes.

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1836.  Arnold, Lett. (1844), II. viii. 48. An image … of the encircling of the everlasting arms.

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