incastellate

• encastellate

From Mediaeval Latin incastellātus (“fortified, incastled, incastellate”), from in- (“in-: make into”) + castellum (“little fortification, castle”). Equivalent to incastle + -ate and cognate with Italian incastellare.

incastellate (third-person singular simple present incastellates, present participle incastellating, simple past and past participle incastellated)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To make into a castle.

From Medieval Latin castellum (“cistern”).

incastellate (third-person singular simple present incastellates, present participle incastellating, simple past and past participle incastellated)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To enclose (cisterns, fountains, etc.).
   • 1598, John Stow, A Suruay of London, page 233:

     Incastellated the same in sufficient cesternes.

• "† inˈcastellate | enˈcastellate, v.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

incastellate

1. inflection of incastellare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

incastellate f pl

1. feminine plural of incastellato