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单词 incastle
释义

incastle

English

Alternative forms

  • encastle, incastell (obsolete)

Etymology

From Mediaeval Latin incastellāre (to fortify, to incastle), from in- (in-: make into) + castellum (little fortification, castle). Cognate with Italian incastellare and Old French encasteler.

Verb

incastle (third-person singular simple present incastles, present participle incastling, simple past and past participle incastled)

  1. (obsolete) To add castles to a place.
    • 1587, John Hooker translating Gerald of Wales as the "Vaticinall Historie of the Conquest of Ireland" in Chronicles, Vol. III, 47/2:
      Meth was alredie meetlie well and indifferentlie fortified and incastelled.

Synonyms

  • See fortify

References

  • "† in'castle, v." in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Anagrams

  • canistel, lensatic
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