encincture

American  

[en-singk-cher] / ɛnˈsɪŋk tʃər /

verb (used with object)

encinctured, encincturing

1. to gird or encompass with or as with a belt or girdle.

   A ring of hills encinctures the town.

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Etymology

Origin of encincture

First recorded in 1805–15; en- ¹ + cincture

Example Sentences

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encinctured encincturing

One looks into the sun lawn, and the steep   Curved slopes of hills, set sharp against the sky,   With tufted woods encinctured, waving high O'er vales below, where broken shadows sleep.

From The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems by MacLean, Kate Seymour

And far before us through the darkness loomed the vast bulk of the Sacred Mountain, with the ring of eternal fires encincturing its crest.

From The Lost Continent by Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright