cinctadj.
/sɪŋkt/ rare.
Girt, encircled, surrounded. (Construed as a participle; cf. compact adj.1 I.)
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surrounding > [adjective] > surrounded
purseynta1400
umberunc1440
circumdate1460
cinct?a1475
succinct?a1475
circledc1540
circumferat1575
circumscript1610
environed1610
encircled1632
precinct1641
circumcinct1656
cinctured1757
begirt1791
begirdled1813
compassed1860
surrounded1891
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 271 Alle Fraunce is cincte with thre nowble waters.
1840 R. Browning Sordello vi. 450 Thus girt With circumstance, next change beholds them cinct Quite otherwise.
1867 H. W. Longfellow tr. Dante Purgatorio xxx. 31 Her snow white veil with olive cinct.
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adj.?a1475- he never misses does not miss a trick
- he runs far that never turns
- he she can give cards and spades
- he she could not see it
- he she didn't do anything else
- he she will go far
- he she wouldn't know a —— if it bit him
- he she wouldn't know a —— if it bit him etc
- he she wouldn't know a —— if it bit him her
- he she wouldn't know a —— if it etc him
- he she wouldn't know a —— if it etc him etc
- he she wouldn't know a —— if it etc him her
- he she wouldn't know a —— if it kicked him
- he she wouldn't know a —— if it kicked him etc
- he she wouldn't know a —— if it kicked him her
- he she wouldn't say boo to a goose
- he should have a long spoon that sups with the devil
- he that comes first to the mill grinds first
- he that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing
- he that hews high may have a chip fall in his eye
- he that looks high may have a chip fall in his eye
- he that marries a girl, mars a woman
- he that sings once, weeps all his life after
- he that touches pitch shall be defiled
- he that will not when he may, when he will he shall not