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▪ I. incarcerate, ppl. a. arch.|ɪnˈkɑːsərət|
[ad. med.L. incarcerāt-us, pa. pple. of incarcerāre: see prec.]
Incarcerated, imprisoned; confined, shut in. (Formerly constr. also as pa. pple. of next.)
1528Roy Rede Me (Arb.) 48 They lose their goodes with oute mercy, And their boddies to be incarcerate. 1583Leg. Bp. St. Androis Pref. 31 Tane and incarcerat, kepit heir and there. 1647H. More Song of Soul iii. iii. x, While in this muddy world incarcerate They lie. 1752J. Louthian Form of Process (ed. 2) i. 61 The Committer..shall order his Liberation, or discharge his Imprisonment, if not incarcerate. 1827H. Coleridge Poems (1833) I. 85 Breathes the mephitic and incarcerate fog. 1863Sala Capt. Dangerous I. x. 285 Many..lay incarcerate years after they had satisfied the Demands of their Creditors.
▪ II. incarcerate, v.|ɪnˈkɑːsəreɪt|
[f. ppl. stem of med.L. incarcerāre: see incarcer and -ate3.]
1. trans. To shut up in prison; to put in confinement; to imprison.
1560Rolland Crt. Venus ii. 342 Tratour, I sall thy corps Incarcerate. 1637–50Row Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.) 238 Mr. Andro Melvill, by great moyen..obtained leave that a servant should be incarcerated with him in the Tower. 1654in W. Ross Aberdour & Inchcolme xi. (1885) 329 The Session desires the Bailȝie to cause apprehend and incarcerate presently Margaret Currie. 1833L. Ritchie Wand. by Loire 57 We were incarcerated a whole day in the prison.
2. fig. To shut up as in prison; to confine.
1640–4in Rushw. Hist. Coll. iii. (1692) I. 216 What is it..to incarcerate the Liberty of the Subject under the Iron and weighty Chains of an Arbitrary Government? 1665G. Harvey Advice agst. Plague 9 Those dense bodies..easily incarcerate the infected air.
Hence inˈcarcerated ppl. a., imprisoned; spec. in Path., variously used of a strangulated, obstructed, or otherwise irreducible hernia and of a retained placenta; inˈcarcerating ppl. a., that incarcerates, imprisoning.
1742Young Nt. Th. iv. 665 From nature's continent..this little isle of life, This dark, incarcerating colony, Divides us. 1783Pott Chirurg. Wks. II. 76 Every symptom which attends an incarcerated rupture. Ibid. 186 The operation for the incarcerated bubonocele. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) IV. 65 A troublesome phimosis either of the strangulating or incarcerating kind. 1823Bentham Not Paul 19 The sweeping and incarcerating commission he had been intrusted with by the rulers. 188319th Cent. May 878 The incarcerating creditor was compelled to allow him a daily aliment. 1886Syd. Soc. Lex., Hernia, incarcerated,..variously explained by authors. It is used by some..as strangulated; by others, to signify..an obstructed hernia; and by others, to denote a hernia which has become irreducible in consequence of thickening of, or fatty deposit in, the enclosed omentum or mesentery. |