v. Also 7 ingirdle. [f. EN-1 + GIRDLE.] trans. To surround with, or as with, a girdle; to serve as a girdle or enclosure to; to encompass. Also fig.

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1602.  Davison, in Farr, S. P. Eliz. (1845), II. 325. As mountaines great on euery side Engirdle faire Jerusalem.

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1621.  Lady M. Wroth, Urania, 225. He was ingirdled with his enemies.

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1728.  Glover, On Sir Isaac Newton, 163, Poems (1743), 170. Comets … With hideous Grasp the Skies engirdle round.

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1830.  J. Wilson, in Blackw. Mag., XXVII. 665. A metropolitan city … engirdled with groves.

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1852.  Miss Yonge, Cameos (1877), II. ix. 111. To die engirdled by the cord of St. Francis was the sure means of safety.

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