Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To incrust; form an incrustation on.
- Incrusted.
- In botany:
- Coated, as with earthy matter.
- Growing so firmly to the pericarp as to appear to have but one integument: said of seeds.
- Incrusting; forming a crust, as a polyzoan or a lichen.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To incrust.
- adjective Incrusted.
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- verb To
encrust .
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Examples
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The passage is not impertinent, even though but as showing how early condemnatory tradition had begun to incrustate around Astrea.
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Yet, such is the pretence of these men about the person of Christ, to incrustate and give some colour unto their foul misbelief; as supposing that it would be much to their disadvantage to own Christ only as a mere man, — though the most part of their disputes that they have troubled the Christian world withal have had no other design nor aim but to prove him so to be, and nothing else.
A Brief Declaration and Vindication of The Doctrine of the Trinity 1616-1683 1965
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The passage is not impertinent, even though but as showing how early condemnatory tradition had begun to incrustate around Astrea.
The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Aphra Behn 1664
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