engirt

verb

1. (obsolete)To girt; to surround or encircle.
2. (form-of, participle, past)past participle of engird

adj

1. (rare)Encircled, surrounded.

   “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.”