encastellate

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A form of incastellate — To make into a castle.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

verbencastellate (third-person singular simple present encastellates, present participle encastellating, simple past and past participle encastellated)

present singular third person encastellates · participle present encastellating · participle past encastellated · past encastellated

  1. alternativeobsoletetransitiveAlternative form of incastellate: to make into a castle.

    ...Began first to encastellate it...

    a. 1552, John Leland, Itinerary, volume I, page 61
    1 more example

    The Auncient mannor place at Arkland he did encastellate.

    1601, Francis Godwin, A Catalogue of the Bishops of England since the First Planting of Christian Religion in This Island, page 522

Synonyms & antonyms

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