Engirt

From - + girt.

Full definition of engirt

Verb

1. (obsolete) To girt; to surround or encircle.

Inflected forms.

Verb

1. Past participle of engird

Adjective

1. (rare) Encircled, surrounded.
• 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p. 64: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.