incantoning
English
Etymology
in- + canton + -ing
Noun
incantoning (uncountable)
- (obsolete, rare) union into a canton or separate community
- 1705, J[oseph] Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 1051505315:
- fearing the protestant interest might receive by it too great a strengthening , proposed at the same time the incantoning of Constance as a counterpoise
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for incantoning under incanton in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)