circumvest
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin circumvestire, from circum (“around”) + vestire (“to clothe”).
Verb[edit]
circumvest (third-person singular simple present circumvests, present participle circumvesting, simple past and past participle circumvested)
- (obsolete) To cover round, as with a garment; to invest.
- 1642, Henry Wotton, A Short View of the Life and Death of George Villiers:
- Circumvested with much prejudice.
References[edit]
“circumvest”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.