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Meaning of encaiar | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1
eŋkɑˈjaɾ

Definitions

  1. to get stuck; to freeze
    intransitive
  2. to get dry
    intransitive

Examples

“Quando aquel Ihesus, meu señor, ya por la terras preegar, eu avia de moy grãde amor et soydade de veer a sua façe et quigi mãdar pintar a semelança do seu rrostro, que era a mays fremosa criatura do mũdo, en hũu pano por fillar cõ ela prazer et cõforto quando o vise; et querendoo fazer cõteyllo todo, et el pediome o pano et posoo ẽna sua cara et doumo encayado cõ tal figura cal era o seu santo rrostro;”

When that Jesus, my Lord, was going about the lands preaching, I had, because of how big was my love, longing for seeing His face; and I wanted to order a paint after His face, which was the most beautiful creation in the world, in a cloth, for having joy and confort whenever I saw it; and wanting to do it I told him, and He asked me for the cloth, put it on His face and gave it back to me fixed with a figure that was no other than His holy face;

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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