Meanings
present singular third person incastellates · participle present incastellating · participle past incastellated · past incastellated · alternative encastellate
- obsoletetransitiveTo enclose a well or cistern with masonry.
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Sir William Estfild, knight of the Bath, Mayor, 1438. a great benefactor to that church, vnder a fayre monument, hee also builded steeple, changed their old Bels into 5. tunable bels, and gaue one hundred poundes to other workes of that church. Moreouer hee caused the Conduit in Aldermanbury which he had begun, to be performed at his charges and water to be conuayed by pipes of leade from Tyborne to Fleetstreete, as I haue said. And also from high Berie to the parrish of S. Giles without Cripplegate, where the inhabitants of those partes incastellated the same in sufficient cisternes, […]
1598, John Stow, A Suruay of London, page 233Synonyms: stean
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo enclose a well or cistern with masonry.
Origin
- Medieval Latinincastellātus
- Englishincastellate
First attested in 1552; borrowed from Medieval Latin incastellātus, perfect passive participle of incastellō (“to fortify, incastle, incastellate”) from in- (“in-: make into”) + castellum (“little fortification, castle; cistern”). Cognate with Italian incastellare.
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