engirth

Definitions

To surround; to engirt.

poetic

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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