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单词 incastle
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incastlev.

Forms: In 1500s–1600s encastle, 1500s–1700s incastell.
Etymology: < medieval Latin incastellāre = Italian incastellare (Florio), Old French enchasteler to furnish with a castle or castles, < in- (in- prefix3) + Latin castellum castle n.; compare incastellate v.
Obsolete.
transitive. To provide with castles; to fortify.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > castle or fortified building > make into or provide with castle [verb (transitive)]
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1587 J. Hooker tr. Giraldus Cambrensis Vaticinall Hist. Conquest Ireland ii. xxv. 47/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II Meth was alredie meetlie well and indifferentlie fortified & incastelled.
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Incastellare, to encastle, to fortifie with castles, to reduce or bring to a castle.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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