incrustate

English

Etymology

Latin incrustatus.

Pronunciation
  • (verb) IPA(key): /ɪŋˈkɹʌsteɪt/
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  • (adjective) IPA(key): /ɪŋˈkɹʌsteɪt/, /ɪŋˈkɹʌstət/
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Verb

incrustate (third-person singular simple present incrustates, present participle incrustating, simple past and past participle incrustated)

  1. To encrust.
    • 1705-1715, George Cheyne, The Philosophical Principles of Religion Natural and Revealed
      Now shou'd it happen that any of these Sun - like Bodies in the Centers of the several Vortices shou'd be so incrustated and weaken'd , as to be carried about in the Vortex of the true Sun

Adjective

incrustate (comparative more incrustate, superlative most incrustate)

  1. encrusted
    • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “1. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], OCLC 1044372886:
      the finer part will be turned into air , and the grosser stick as it were baked , and incrustate upon the sides of the vessel

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 incrustate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

incrū̆stāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of incrū̆stō
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