cingere

cingere [CL] 1 to gird, girdle; b (w. gladio, as emblem of knighthood or earlship). ut recentis corii cruditate nuda martiris membra ~erentur Aldh. VirgP 35; 1311 (v. chordula 4e); s1406 [papa] ad mamillas ultra stolam et rochetum ‥ ~itur Ad. Usk 101; 1415 cinctis lumbos zonis aureis G. Hen. V 15 p. 106.  b Ord. Vit. VIII 1 (v. arma 2c); videns militem longissimo cinctum gladio Map NC II 23 p. 95; 1205 (v. comes 4d); s1234 rex ‥ Gilebertum cingulo cinxit militari M. Par. Maj. III 292; 1278 veredictum militum gladio cinctorum de parte com. Norff’ Hund. I 514b; 1322 (v. comes 4a); s1360 cinctis ‥ de novo militibus quadringentis J. Reading 172b. 2 to surround, encircle, contain, or flank; b (fig.). Carm. Aldh. 5. 28 (v. candescere a); Aldh. CE III 79 (v. capitellum 1b); punica ‥ mala ‥ / quae circum simplo cortex velamine cingit Id. VirgV 237 (cf. (v. circumcingere)); calicem, qui mortis pocula cinxit Ib. 866; in ‥ loco refluis undique pelagi fluctibus cincto (V. Cuthb. 42) Bede HE IV 28; 9‥ convolvit, i. ~it, embhrincþ, ‥ ~ebant, ymbhæfdan WW; Sanctus Albanus j haga singa [i. e. cincta] et est in calumnia (Berks) DB I 56va; omnes istae salinae ‥ ~ebantur ex una parte quodam flumine et quodam fossato ex alia parte DB I 268; graditur canibus cinctus utrumque latus Nig. SS 804; legitur ‥ Gurmundum ‥ Cirecestriam obsidione cinxisse Gir. TH III 39; castrum ‥ duplici fossa ~atur Neckam Ut. 103; H. Avr. Hugh 881 (v. chorea 1b); c1270 cum toto fossato illam [croftam] circumquaque ~ente Cart. Glouc. II 203; 1316 [ij acris terre fossato] scinctis CalCh III 324 (cf. ib.: scingta).  b quem in cordis cubiculo / cingo amoris vinculo Carm. Aldh. 5. 4; nebulis ‥ tenebrosis cogitationum mearum undique cinctum me esse sentio Eriug. Per. 635A. 3 (p. ppl. cinctus) tight. b (?) prompt; cf. accingere 2d. c (as sb. n.) girdle or headband; cf. cinctium. d (sb. m.) goldfinch; cf. auricinctus. strayte, ‥ artus, strictus, ~us, angustus CathA.  b curre vĕlox, carta, plures fer cincta salutes Alcuin Carm. 56. 1. 6.  c 1207 v s. pro j ~o ad opus domine regine et xx d. pro auro ad zonam ipsius regine Cl 82b.  d cintus vel frugellus, goldfinc Ælf. Gl.; 9‥ cintus, finc WW.