incastellate

• encastellate

First attested in 1552; borrowed from Medieval Latin incastellātus, perfect passive participle of incastellō (“to fortify, incastle, incastellate”) from in- (“in-: make into”) + castellum (“little fortification, castle; cistern”). Cognate with Italian incastellare.

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

1. (transitive) To make into a castle.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

2. (transitive) To enclose a well or cistern with masonry.

   Synonym: stean

   • 1598, John Stow, A Suruay of London, page 233:

     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, […]

• "† 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