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Meaning of incastellate | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. To make into a castle.
    obsolete, transitive
  2. To enclose a well or cistern with masonry.
    obsolete, transitive

Examples

“Sir William Estfild, knight of the Bath, Mayor, 1438. a great benefactor to that church, vnder a fayre monument, hee also builded steeple, changed their old Bels into 5. tunable bels, and gaue one hundred poundes to other workes of that church. Moreouer hee caused the Conduit in Aldermanbury which he had begun, to be performed at his charges and water to be conuayed by pipes of leade from Tyborne to Fleetstreete, as I haue said. And also from high Berie to the parrish of S. Giles without Cripplegate, where the inhabitants of those partes incastellated the same in sufficient cisternes, […]”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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