Accinge

[Grogie]

To prepare or brace oneself for something. ''He accinged himself for the supreme effort.''The country accinged itself for the gigantic war effort.''

[Perry]

Etymology
From Latin accingō "to gird"

Nice word!

[Bailey]

so if someone was being burned at the stake they would accinge themselves for the singeing?

mark no-more-wingeing Bailey

[gailr]

Etymology
From Latin accingō "to gird"

Nice word!

Very nice word, grogie. AHD gives the root kenk-

To gird, bind. Variant form *keng-. cinch, cincture, cingulum; enceinte2, precinct, shingles, succinct, from Latin cingere, to gird. (Pokorny 1. kenk- 565.)

And what better for girding than a cincture? I was informed that, although your garden-variety friar-like rope will do -- [forgive me!] in a pinch -- the most prized are finely knit or crocheted 'I-cords', made by cloistered nuns, now a dying breed and craft...

The related derivations should be obvious, but I had never thought about the connection: precinct [a defined district or area] and succinct [clear, precise expression in few words].

-gailr

[gailr]

To gird, bind. Variant form *keng-. cinch, cincture, cingulum; enceinte2, precinct, shingles, succinct, from Latin cingere, to gird. (Pokorny 1. kenk- 565.)

Hmmm, I think... yes... [gr consults reference], enceinte is pregnant in Spanish, derived from the same Latin root.

[Grogie]

Thanks Gail and Perry.