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▪ I. † inˈcardinate, a. Obs. Used humourously as a blunder for incarnate.
1601Shakes. Twel. N. v. i. 185 We tooke him for a Coward, but hee's the verie diuell incardinate. ▪ II. incardinate, v.|ɪnˈkɑːdɪneɪt| [f. ppl. stem of med.L. incardināre to institute into an ecclesiastical benefice, f. in- (in-2) + cardo, cardin-em hinge, cardinālis a chief presbyter, a cardinal.] trans. a. To institute as principal priest, deacon, etc. at a particular church or place (see Cardinalis and Incardinare in Du Cange); in quot. 1609 explained etymologically. b. To institute to a cardinalship, raise to the rank of cardinal.
1609Bp. W. Barlow Answ. Nameless Cath. 7 A dignitie [that of Cardinal] denominated..as being Incardinated (it is Gregories word) that is Mortized or riueted to a Church, as a hinge to a dore. [1725tr. Dupin's Eccl. Hist. 17th C. I. ii. iii. 42 He who had a right to succeed was called Incardinatus; whereas he who had a Church in present was said to be Ordinatus.] 1862Hook Lives Abps. II. xii. 663 When he had accepted the office of Cardinal, but before he was incardinated. 1882–3Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. I. 403 Pope Pius V finally confined the title [cardinal] formerly applied somewhat vaguely to all priests appointed at a cathedral church..to such among the clergy of the city of Rome as had been ‘incardinated’ by the Pope himself. So incardiˈnation, institution or formal incorporation.
1897Dublin Rev. Oct. 483 A tribal badge, symbol of incardination in the sept. |