encapsulatev.
/ɛnˈkapsjʊleɪt/ transitive. To enclose (as) in a capsule. Also figurative, to summarize or isolate as if in a capsule.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > enclose [verb (transitive)] > enclose in a receptacle or surrounding mass > in a receptacle > in or as in a capsule
encapsulate1874
encapsule1877
1874 C. H. Jones & E. H. Sieveking Man. Pathol. Anat. (ed. 2) 150 The tumours are sometimes clearly defined and incapsulated.
1877 L. A. Duhring Pract. Treat. Dis. Skin 26 A membrane encapsulating the corpuscle.
1939 R. G. Collingwood Autobiogr. x. 113 But this secondary life is prevented from overflowing into my primary life by being what I call incapsulated, that is, existing in a context of primary or surface knowledge which keeps it in its place and prevents it from thus overflowing.
1939 R. G. Collingwood Autobiogr. x. 114 Historical knowledge is the re-enactment of a past thought incapsulated in a context of present thoughts.
1954 D. Riesman in Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 59 382/2 Institutions incapsulate them or awaken them or destroy them.
1955 M. Beloff Foreign Policy & Democratic Process 50 It may simply be that the older nations of Europe have retained, incapsulated within them, sufficient relics of their predemocratic leadership to provide the necessary ballast for the democratic sails.
1958 N. R. Hanson Patterns of Discov. i. 27 Language can encapsulate scenes and sounds, teeth and growls, smiles and laughs.
1958 Oxf. Mag. 20 Nov. 109/1 They are forced to work for two terms for an exam…which encapsulates that dreary anachronism, compulsory Latin.
1961 Guardian 22 May 5/1 May one, if need arise, be encapsulated and shot into space, but not, I beg, with members of one's family.
1962 W. Nowottny Lang. Poets Use vii. 146 To offer such a definition is to attempt to incapsulate a number of critical trends.
1967 Listener 29 June 863/3 This charming little creation..encapsulates an aspect of history for all time.
1972 Country Life 6 Jan. 56/3 For his ministers the problem was often to incapsulate him [sc. William IV] or walk round him.
Derivatives
enˈcapsulated adj.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > [adjective] > enclosed > in a capsule
encapsulated1913
1913 Chambers's Jrnl. Aug. 553/2 The cell becomes encapsulated and pointed.
1959 Oxf. Mail 2 Feb. 5/4 Another interesting, though less successful, experiment involves a small nude encapsulated in a large abstract design.
enˈcapsulating n. and adj. applied figuratively to certain languages in which modifying elements are inserted in the body of a word.
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the mind > language > [adjective] > characterized by grammar
unaccidentedc1740
resupinate1836
atactic1842
amalgamate1849
anaptotic1850
isolating1860
encapsulating1868
grammarless1868
uninflected1875
amalgamating1877
intercalative1882
postmutative1899
positional1908
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > [noun] > in a capsule
encapsulation1860
encapsulating1868
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > [adjective] > in a capsule
encapsulating1868
1868 F. M. Müller Stratif. Lang. 22 The infixing or incapsulating languages are but a variety of the affixing class.
1958 Times Rev. Industry May 70/1 The bulk of encapsulating production is pharmaceutical.
1959 New Scientist 13 Aug. 192/2 One way of encapsulating is akin to blowing bubbles.
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