CINCTURED

Verb

cinctured

simple past tense and past participle of cincture

Adjective

cinctured (not comparable)

Having a cincture.

Source: Wiktionary


Cinc"tured, n.

Definition: Having or wearing a cincture or gridle.

CINCTURE

Cinc"ture, n. Etym: [L. cinctura, fr. cingere, cinctum, to gird.]

1. A belt, a girdle, or something worn round the body, -- as by an ecclesiastic for confining the alb.

2. That which encompasses or incloses; an inclosure. "Within the cincture of one wall." Bacon.

3. (Arch.)

Definition: The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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