incapsulate 
edly ; compose by parenthesis within parenthe- 
sis: applied metaphorically to certain Ameri- 
can-Indian languages in which various modi- 
fying elements are inserted in a verb-form, 
incapsulation (in-kap-su-la'shon), n. [< incap- 
sulate + -ion.'] The act of incapsulating, or the 
state of being incapsulated. 
The sentences [of the Mexican language) are formed by 
a sort of incapsulation. and may be compared to those 
boxes shut up one within another which afford so much 
amusement to children. 
F. W. Farrar, Families of Speech, p. 177. 
incarcert (in-kar'ser), v. t. [< F. incarcerer = 
Pr. encarcerar = Sp. encarcelar = Pg. encarcerar 
= It. incarcerare, < ML. incarcerare, imprison : 
see incarcerate.] To incarcerate. 
This grieves mee most, that I for grievous sinne 
Incarcer'd lye within this floating Inn. 
Z. Boyd, Flowers of Zion. 
incarcerate (in-kar'se-rat), v. t. ; pret. and pp. 
incarcerated, ppr. incarcerating. [< ML. incar- 
ceratus, pp. of incarcerare (> ult. E. inearcer, 
q. v.), imprison, < L. in, in, + career, a prison: 
see carcerate."] 1. To imprison; confine in a 
jail. 2. To confine; shut up or inclose ; con- 
strict closely : as, incarcerated hernia. 
Contagion may be propagated by bodies that easily in- 
cnrcerate the infected air, as woollen clothes. Harvey. 
3032 
incautious 
incarnardinet, *' t. An erroneous form of in- incamification (in-kar"ni-fi-ka'shqn), n. [< 
carnadine. in- 2 + carnijicatioti.] Formation into or em- 
incarnate 1 (in-kar'nat), r. ; pret. and pp. in- bodiment in flesh ; incarnation. [Rare.] 
carnated, ppr. incarnating. [< LL. incarnatus, Incarvillea (in-kar-vH'e-ii), n. [NL. (A. L. de 
pp. of incarnari, be made flesh, become incar- Jussieu, 1789), named after P. A'lncarville, a Jes- 
nate, ML. also inearnare, invest with flesh, in- uit missionary in China, who first sent speci- 
carnate, < L. in, in, on, + caro (earn-), flesh: mensofthisplanttoBernarddeJussieuinl743.] 
see carnal. Cf. incarn.'] I. trans. To clothe 
with flesh ; embody in flesh. 
They believed in Christ to be incarnated, and to suffer 
death. 
Tyndalc, Ans. to Sir T. More, etc. (Parker Soc., I860), p. 245. 
This essence to incarnate and imbrute, 
That to the highth of deity aspired ! 
Milton, P. L, ix. 166. 
A monotypic genus of dicotyledonous gamo- 
petalous plants, of the natural order Bignonia- 
cece and tribe Tecomeat. The calyx is campannlate, 
with the apex 5-lobed ; the corolla has an ample tube; the 
stamens are didynamous and included; and the ovary is 
2-celled. The single species, /. Sinentis, is a native of 
China, and is an erect branched annual or biennial herb, 
with alternate 2- to 3-pinnate leaves, and large red flowers 
in terminal racemes. 
Given a human foible, he [Shakspere] can incarnate It Incarvillese (in-kar-vil'e-e), n. pi. [NL. (End- 
in the nothingness of Slender, or make it loom gigantic li c l,er 1836 -40^ < Incarrillfn + -fir 1 In End- 
through the tragic twilight of Hamlet. le ;j ^ **" \ ** 
Lowell, Study Windows, p. 316. heller's classification, a suborder of the Signo- 
niacece, typified by the genus Incarvillea: by De 
Candolle reduced to the rank of a subtribe. 
H. intrans. To form flesh ; heal, as a wound, 
incarceration (in-kar-se-ra'shon), n. [= F. in- 
carceration = Pr. encarceration = Sp. encarcela- 
cion = It. incarceragione, incarccrazione, < ML. 
incarceratio(n-), < incarcerare, imprison: see in- 
carcerate.] 1. The act of incarcerating or im- 
prisoning; imprisonment. 
It [the doctrine of preexistence] supposeth the descent 
into these bodyes to be a culpable lapse from an higher 
and better state of life, and this to be a state of incarcera- 
tion for former delinquencies. 
Olanmlle, Pre-existence of Souls, iv. 
2. In surg. , obstinate constriction, as of a hernia, 
or retention, as of the placenta in childbirth ; 
strangulation, asinhernia.=Syn, i. Imprisonment, 
Confinement, etc. See captivity. 
incarcerator (in-kar'se-ra-tor), n. [< incarce- 
rate + -or.] One who'incafcerates or shuts up 
in prison. 
incardinate't, A perversion of incarnate 1 . 
The count's gentleman, one Cesario : we took him for a 
coward, but he's the very devil incardinate. 
Shak, T. N., v. 1. 
incardinate 2 (in-kar'di-nat), v. t.; pret. and 
pp. incardinated, ppr. incardinating. [< ML. in- 
cardinatus, pp. of incardinare (also cardinare), 
receive or install (a priest) into a church, lit. 
'hinge' (fit in so as to attach), < L. in, in, + 
cardo (cardin-), a hinge: see cardo, cardinal."] 
To attach corporately or as a cardinal part, as 
a priest to a particular church. 
[The idea] that cardinal priests were those refugees from 
persecution who were received and incardinated into the 
clerical body of churches more happily circumstanced. 
Encyc. Brit., V. 96. 
Incarial (ing-ka'ri-al), a. [< Inca + -ari-al.~\ 
Same as Incan. [Bare.] 
The . . . Museum of Incarial Antiquities [in CuzcoJ. 
Encyc. Brit., VI. 744. 
incarnt (in-karn'), 0. [< F. incarner, OF. en- 
charner = Pr. Sp. Pg. encarnar = It. inearnare, 
become incarnate, < LL. incarnari, be made 
flesh, become incarnate, ML. also inearnare, 
invest with flesh, incarnate : see incarnate 1 , .] 
I. trans. To invest with flesh; incarnate. 
The flesh will soon arise in that cut of the bone, and 
make exfoliation of what is necessary, and incarn it. 
Wiieman, Surgery. 
II. intran-s. To become invested or covered 
with flesh. 
The slough came off, and the ulcer happily incarnetl. 
Wiseman, Surgery. 
incarnadine (in-kar'na-din), a. [< F. incar- 
nadin, for "incarnatin (= Sp. encarnadino, flesh- 
colored), < incarnat, flesh-colored: see incar- 
nate 1 , a.] Of a carnation-color; pale-red. [Ar- 
chaic.] 
Such whose white satin upper coat of skin, 
Cut upon velvet rich incarnadine, 
Has yet a body (and of flesh) within. 
Lovelace, To my Lady H. 
incarnadine (in-kiir'na-din), v. t. ; pret. and pp. 
incarnadined, ppr. incarnadinini/. [< incarna- 
dine, a.] To dye red or carnation; tinge with 
the color of flesh. 
No ; this my hand will rather 
The multitudinous seas incarnadine, 
Making the green one red. 
Shak., Macbeth, II. 2. 
[In some editions erroneously incarnardine.} 
Lo ! in the painted oriel of the west, 
Whose fanes the sunken sun incarnadines. 
Longfellow, Sonnets, The Evening Star. 
by granulation. [Rare.] 
My uncle Toby's wound was nearly well ; . . . 'twas Just 
beginning to incarnate. Sterne, Tristram Shandy, ii. 5. 
incarnate 1 (in-kar'nat), a. [< ME. incarnate, 
embodied in flesh, = F. incarnat = Sp. Pg. en- 
carnado = It. incarnato, incarnate, flesh-col- 
ored, < LL. incarnatus, pp., incarnate: see the 
verb.] 1. Invested with flesh; embodied in 
flesh. 
Who for us men and for our salvation came down from 
heaven, And was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Vir- 
gin Mary, And was made man. 
Book of Common Prayer, Nicene Creed. 
Here shalt thoii sit incarnate, here shalt reign 
Both God and Man. Milton, r. I... iii. 815. 
2. Of a red color ; flesh-colored. 
In one place they are of a fresh and bright purple, in 
another of a glittering, incarnate, and rosate colour. 
Holland, tr. of Pliny, xiv. 1. 
The tubes of the corolla of the common red and imar- 
nate clovers (Trifolium pretense and incarnatum) do not 
on a hasty glance appear to differ in length. 
Darwin, Origin of Species, p. 97. 
incarnate 2 ? (in-kar'nat), a. [< in- 3 + carnate."] 
Not carnate or in the flesh ; divested of a body ; 
disembodied. [Rare.] 
I fear nothing . . . that devil carnate or incarnate can 
fairly do against a virtue so established. 
Richardson, Clarissa Harlowe, V. 46. 
incarnation (in-kar-na'shon), n. [< ME. in- 
carnation, incarnacioun, <"OF. incarnatiun, in- 
carnation, incarnation, F. incarnation = Pr. 
encarnatio = Sp. encarnacion = Pg. encarnaeSo 
= It. incarnazione, < ML. incarnatio(n-), < LL. 
incarnari, be made flesh, ML. also inearnare, 
invest with flesh : see incarnate 1 ."] 1. The act 
of incarnating or clothing with flesh ; the act 
of assuming flesh or a human body and the 
nature of man ; the state of being incarnated. 
In theology the doctrine of the incarnation is the doc- 
incase, encase (in-, en-kas'), v. t.; pret. and 
pp. incased, encased, ppr. incasing, encasing. [< 
- 2 , en- 1 , + case 2 ."] To inclose in or as in a case; 
cover or surround with something. 
Oh ! in that portal should the chief appear, 
Each hand tremendous with a brazen spear, 
In radiant panoply his limbs incas'J. 
Pope, Odyssey, i. 883. 
I can conceive nothing more impressive than the eastern 
view of this great range [the Cordilleras], as forcing the 
mind to grapple with the idea of the thousands of thou- 
sands of years requisite for the denudation of the strata 
which originally encased it. 
Darwin, Geol. Observations, ii. 500. 
Incased pupa, in tntum., a pupa which is protected by 
a cocoon. 
incasement, encasement (in-, en-kas'ment), n. 
[< incase, encase, + -went.] 1 . The act of inclos- 
ing in a case, or the state of being inclosed in or 
as if in a case. 
That mythical period of universal incasement in ice, of 
which, as I have elsewhere endeavoured to show, in so far 
as Canada is concerned, there is no evidence whatever. 
Dan-son, Geol. Hist, of Plants, p. 233. 
2. That which forms a case or covering; any 
inclosing substance. 
Several parts of the outer tunic of the animal's body 
[Pollicipes polymerus} presented the remarkable fact of 
being calcified, but to a variable degree ; whereas in sev- 
eral specimens from California there was no vestige of 
this encasement. Darwin, Cirripedia, p. 314. 
Theory of Incasement, an old theory of reproduction 
which assumed that when the first animal of each species 
was created, the germs of all other individuals of the same 
species which were to come from it were incased in its ova. 
The discovery of spermatozoa developed the theory in 
two opposite directions: the ovulists, or ovists, held still 
to the theory of incasement in the female, while the ani- 
malcnlists, or spermists, entertained the theory of incase- 
ment in the male. 
incaskt (in-kask'), v. t. [< in-2 + cask 1 ."] To 
Then did he inen.sk his pate in his hat. 
Shelton, tr. of Don Quixote, I. i. 13. 
trine that the Divine Being has assumed human nature, 
or has dwelt on the earth in a human form. The doc- incast (in'kast), n. [< in 1 + cast 1 ."] Something 
trine has been held in both forms in the Christian church, thrown in in arlrtitinn an amount irivpn Vnr a 
The orthodox opinion is that God, in Jesus Christ his Son . given Dy a 
not merely assumed a human body, and became subject seller above the exact measure, as a pound in a 
to the limitations of the human flesh, but also that he as- stone of wool, or a fleece in a pack. 
sumed a proper human nature, and so is at once truly God incastellated (in-kas'te-la-ted), . [< ML. in- 
and truly man. Hindu mythology represents Vishnu as /./,i>f;7/r/)/o fm-Hfir with a xactla ooctolloto < 
having undergone certain avatars, descents, or incorpora- ! *, , ,' i 
tions or incarnations, but they are in part in other than L - m < ln ' + fastellum, a castle : see castellatc.] 
human forms. Confined or inclosed in a castle. Coles, 1717. 
Also the! beleeven and spekn gladly of the Virgine Ma- incastelled (in-kas'teld), a. [As incastell(ate) 
rie and of the Incarnacioun. Mandenlle, Travels, p. 132. + -Cfi 2 .] 1. Inclosed in a castle. Imp. Diet. 
2. In surg., the process whereby a wound heals, 2f. Hoof-bound. Crabb. 
the affected part becoming filled with new flesh; incatenation (in-ka-te-na'shon), n. [< ML. 
granulation. 3. A representation in an incar- incatenatio(n-), < incatenare, enchain, < L. in, in, 
nate form ; a personification ; a visible embodi- + catena, a chain : see chain. Cf. enchain."] The 
ment; a distinct exemplification in form or act. act of chaining or linking together. [Rare.] 
Shall it take two or three generations of weary expert- A philosopher . . . sedulous in the incatenation of fleas, 
menting to bring into existence some incarnation of ma- or the sculpture of a cherry-stone. 
terial force like the steam-engine, and may it not take a Goldsmith, Citizen of the World, cviii. 
hundred generations forthe human mind to ascertain for incautelOUSt, a. [< in-3 + cautelotlS."] Incau- 
itself experimentally what it can know and what it cannot 4 
know? J. Fiske, Cosmic Phllos., I. 26. . u , s ' 
ftt n> ,,,iiv. .,..,! ij v < ji_<j i i All advantage of cavil at the expressions of the Judges, 
the universal mind each individual man is one more u any had Oe 7 n inca vteloue, was lost to the faction. 
Emerson, History. ' Soffer North< Examen, p. 288. 
4f. The color of flesh; carnation. 5f. In lot., incautelouslyt, adv. Incautiously. 
carnation. Era of the incarnation. See era. incautelousnesst, n. Incautiousness. 
Jicarnativet Cm-kar na-tiv), a. and n. [= F. B y this means is the passion strengthened, and the per- 
ncarnatij = .Pr. encarnatiu = Sp. Pg. encarna- son whom it respects weakened, this by incatitelousnets 
two = It. incarnativOf as incarnate -ive ] I an d credulity, that by restraint and suppression. 
a. Causing new flesh to grow; healing. B P- R*U>1&>, The Passions, p. 144. 
This is generally observed, that all sorts of wax be emol- incaution (in-ka'shon), n. [< *-3 + caution."] 
litive, heating, and incarnatim. Lack of caution; heedlessness. 
Holland, tr. of Pliny, xxii. 24. 
H. n. A medicine that tends to promote the 
growth of new flesh and assist nature in the 
healing of wounds. 
common incarnative used in such cases. 
Witeman, Surgery, I. 9. 
Lest through incaution falling thou may'st be 
A Joy to others, a reproach to me. Pope. 
As though perfection on disorder hung, 
And perfect order from incaution sprung. 
Brooke, Universal Beauty, ii. 
incautious (in-ka'shus), a. [< in- 8 + cautious. 
Cf. L. incautus, incautious.] Not cautious; un- 
wary ; not circumspect ; heedless. 
