Definition of "engirt"

engirt¹

verb
third-person singular simple present engirts, present participle engirting, simple past and past participle engirted
1. (obsolete) To girt; to surround or encircle.

engirt²

verb
1. past participle of engird
adjective
comparative more engirt, superlative most engirt
1. (rare) Encircled, surrounded.
  Quotations
  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.
  1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, page 64