incubatory

Why is spreading the incubatory stages of disease throughout an office viewed as beneficial?

A Sad Thought On America (And, Perhaps, People As A Whole) 2005

When Schillebeeckx burrows back into what he calls the "incubatory history" of the Gospels and Epistles his methods are analogous to those of a philologist who reads through a palimpsest to its second level or of an art restorer who removes a fresco so as to find the underlying cartoon.

Quo Vadis, Wojtyla? Sheehan, Thomas 1980

More recently a French physician, [12] recognizing the incubatory stage of rabies in his own person, resolved upon suicide rather than undergo its attendant horrors.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 Various

That Development or Progress or Evolution is Attempt to Positivize, and is a mechanism by which a positive existence is recruited -- that what we call existence is a womb of infinitude, and is itself only incubatory -- that eventually all attempts are broken down by the falsely excluded.

The Book of the Damned Charles Fort

The advantage is not alone in the saving effected, but in the avoidance of the trouble attendant upon securing fresh eggs and the annoyance of an occasional cake spoiled by the accidental introduction of an egg that has reached a little too nearly the incubatory period.

Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886 Various

The parallel here drawn between the "avoidance of a fire" by a man and the incubatory instinct of a bird is inexact.

Hume (English Men of Letters Series) Thomas Henry Huxley 1860