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Definition of Engirdles
1. engirdle [v] - See also: engirdle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Engirdles
Literary usage of Engirdles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Kantner's Illustrated Book of Objects, Containing Over 2000 Fine Engravings by Washington C. Kantner (1892)
"... That which engirdles a person or thing ; a band or girdle. Belt, A band used
in transmitting power from one wheel to another. ..."
2. The Animal Kingdom: Considered Anatomically, Physically and Philosophically by Emanuel Swedenborg (1912)
"Its inner or posterior extremity is united to the body of the uterus, and engirdles
the orifice of the latter much in the same manner as the duodenum ..."
3. Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy (1894)
"Thus the ideas of God, in universal man, are complete, and forever expressed;
and Science engirdles infinity Completeness. with the fatherhood and ..."
4. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1907)
"... which almost completely engirdles the summit of the Hochstetter Dom, the ice
of the upper part of the glacier is remarkably smooth for about 4 miles, ..."
5. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1918)
"... each spirit, engirdles himself at every moment, spinning the universe of space
and time all round him as the silk worm spins its costly cocoon. ..."
6. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1887)
"Heine, the enchanted magician, the heart-broken jester; 6. Yea, and the
century-crowned patriarch whose bounty engirdles the globe; — 7. ..."
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