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in·cu·nab·u·lum I0094300 (ĭn′kyə-năb′yə-ləm, ĭng′-)n. pl. in·cu·nab·u·la (-lə) 1. A book printed before 1501; an incunable.2. An artifact of an early period.
[New Latin incūnābulum, from sing. of Latin incūnābula, swaddling clothes, cradle : in-, in; see in-2 + cūnābula, cradle, infancy (from cūnae, cradle; see kei- in Indo-European roots).]
in′cu·nab′u·lar (-lər) adj.incunabulumany of the rare, early examples of movabletype editions printed in the last part of the 15th century, as Caxton’s editions of Chaucer and Malory. — incunabula, n. pl. — incunabulist, n. — incunabular, adj.See also: BooksTranslationsEncyclopediaSeeincunabula |