incube

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See also: íncube and incubé

English

Verb

incube (third-person singular simple present incubes, present participle incubing, simple past and past participle incubed)

  1. To bury or encase.
    • 1642 (indicated as 1641), John Milton, The Reason of Church-governement Urg’d against Prelaty , London: E G for Iohn Rothwell, , →OCLC:
      it is the most dividing and schismatical form that geometricians know of , and must be fain to inglobe or incube herself among the presbyters
    • 1902, Koresh, The Immortal Manhood, page 63:
      The social order incubed in the cosmic cell will be an empire, because the physical sphere is itself imperial.
    • 1998, Extended Abstracts - Part 3, page 1558:
      Apatite crystals incubed in soil presented numerous corrosion marks as denticulated margin.
    • 2003, Maud Ellmann, Elizabeth Bowen: The Shadow Across the Page, page 181:
      Poking round the attic, Jane discovered a packet of Guy's love letters incubed in the same trunk as the muslin gown.
  2. To incubate.
    • 1973, Salvatore Raiti, Advances in Human Growth Hormone Research, page 82:
      Cartilage was incubed for 24 hours in basal medium containing 0.1 % ovalbumin with or without additions.
    • 1993, Gail L. Woods, Yezid Gutierrez, Diagnostic Pathology of Infectious Diseases, page 576:
      During the initial incubation bottles incubed aerobically are agitated on a rotary shaker.
    • 1994, Dr. B. K. Sharma, Water Pollution, page 377:
      After inoculation the broth tubes are incubed at 37 ± 2 ° C for 48 hours.

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French incube, borrowed from Latin incubus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛ̃.kyb/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -yb

Noun

incube m (plural incubes)

  1. incubus

Verb

incube

  1. inflection of incuber:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Further reading

Latin

Pronunciation

Noun

incube m

  1. vocative singular of incubus

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin incubus.

Noun

incube oblique singular, m (oblique plural incubes, nominative singular incubes, nominative plural incube)

  1. incubus

Descendants

  • French: incube

Portuguese

Verb

incube

  1. inflection of incubar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

incube

  1. inflection of incubar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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