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begird, v.|bɪˈgɜːd|
Pa. tense and pple. begirt.
[OE. begyrdan (= OHG. bigurten) f. bi-, be- 1 + gyrdan:—OTeut. *gurdjan to gird.]
1. trans. To gird about or around; chiefly used of fastening a girdle or belt round the body, or of fastening on a sword by means of a belt. Also fig.
c1000Ags. Ps. xvii. 37 Þu me begyrdest mid mæᵹenum. c1315Shoreham 51 Hym with a touwayle schete Ihesus..by-gerte. 1583Stanyhurst æneis i. (Arb.) 28 My deere sisters with quiuer closelye begyrded. 1768Beattie Minstr. ii. xxxv, Breasts begirt with steel! 1860Adler Fauriel's Prov. Poetry xv. 399 Begirding the young warrior with the sword.
2. To encircle, encompass, enclose, with.
c890K. ælfred Bæda i. v, He þæt ealond begyrde and ᵹefæstnade mid dice. a1225Ancr. R. 378 Ȝunge mipen me bigurt mid þornes. 1622Heylin Cosmogr. ii. (1682) 114 A Demi-Island begirt with rocks. 1667Milton P.L. i. 581 Vthers Son Begirt with British and Armoric Knights. 1814Cary Dante's Inf. xviii. 11 Where..many a foss Begirds some stately castle. 1846Longfellow Occult. Orion 33 Begirt with many a blazing star.
fig.1633G. Herbert Sinne in Temple 37 Lord, with what care hast thou begirt us round! 1876Miss Sidgwick Live & let Live 62 With what blessings has..Providence begirt labor!
†3. spec. To beset in hostile array, to besiege. Obs. as a spec. use.
1587Greene Arcad. (1616) 62 Melicertus begirt the Castle with a siege. 1618Bolton Florus ii. xvi. 139 Now the City it selfe was begirt with a siege. 1643[Angier] Lanc. Vall. Achor 32 Lancaster called aloud for relief, having been begirt twenty dayes. 1791Cowper Iliad ii. 885 The Epean host had round Begirt the city. |