engirth

English

Verb

engirth (third-person singular simple present engirths, present participle engirthing, simple past and past participle engirthed)

1. (poetic) To surround; to engirt.
   • 1867, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass‎^[1], page 98:

     I SING the Body electric; The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them; They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them, And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the Soul.

   • 2009, Susan B A Somers-Willett, Quiver‎^[2], page 33:

     There between the flesh of pasta and stuffed olives pressed against glass to see the bright noose of his love take shape and engirth the rest of his days.

   • 2020, Algernon Charles Swinburne, A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems‎^[3], page 57:

     Nay, but much more remember them - who led the living first from dwelligs of the dead, and rent the cereclohs that were wont to engirth souls wrapped and swathed and swaddled from their birth wih lies that bound them fast from heel to head.