incube

present singular third person incubes · participle present incubing · participle past incubed · past incubed

1. To bury or encase.

   Apatite crystals incubed in soil presented numerous corrosion marks as denticulated margin.

   1998, Extended Abstracts - Part 3, page 1558

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   it is the most dividing and schismatical form that geometricians know of , and must be fain to inglobe or incube herself among the presbyters

   1642 (indicated as 1641), John Milton, The Reason of Church-governement Urg’d against Prelaty […], London: […] E[dward] G[riffin] for Iohn Rothwell, […], →OCLC

   The social order incubed in the cosmic cell will be an empire, because the physical sphere is itself imperial.

   1902, Koresh, The Immortal Manhood, page 63

   Poking round the attic, Jane discovered a packet of Guy's love letters incubed in the same trunk as the muslin gown.

   2003, Maud Ellmann, Elizabeth Bowen: The Shadow Across the Page, page 181

2. To incubate.

   After inoculation the broth tubes are incubed at 37 ± 2 ° C for 48 hours.

   1994, Dr. B. K. Sharma, Water Pollution, page 377

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   Cartilage was incubed for 24 hours in basal medium containing 0.1 % ovalbumin with or without additions.

   1973, Salvatore Raiti, Advances in Human Growth Hormone Research, page 82

   During the initial incubation bottles incubed aerobically are agitated on a rotary shaker.

   1993, Gail L. Woods, Yezid Gutierrez, Diagnostic Pathology of Infectious Diseases, page 576