Definition of "encircled" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of encircle. (verb)

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• "And I never found the envelope with my name encircled by a heart, revolving on that rack."
• "Just a few weeks later, August Benz & Cie did the same with their logo, the Benz name encircled by a wreath."
• "The Elu of Fifteen ought therefore to take the lead of his fellow-citizen, not in frivolous amusements, not in the degrading pursuits of the ambitious vulgar; but in the truly noble task of enlightening the mass of his countrymen, and of leaving his own name encircled, not with barbaric splendor, or attached to courtly gewgaws, but illustrated by the honors most worthy of our rational nature; coupled with the diffusion of knowledge, and gratefully pronounced by a few, at least, whom his wise beneficence has rescued from ignorance and vice."