Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To cause to bend into an inward curve.
- adj. Curved inward.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To turn from a right line or straight course; curve; crook.
- Curved inward or upward.
Wiktionary
- adj. bending inwards.
- v. transitive To bend (especially inwards); to give a curved shape to.
- v. intransitive to have a curved or bent shape; to bend or curve inwards.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Curved; bent; crooked.
- v. To turn from a straight line or course; to bend; to crook.
WordNet 3.0
- v. bend inwards
- adj. bent into or having an inward curve
- v. cause to curve inward
Examples
“But age doth not rectify, but incurvate [96] our natures, turning bad dispositions into worser habits, and (like diseases,) brings on incurable vices; for every day as we grow weaker in age, we grow stronger in sin, and the number of our days doth but make our sins innumerable.”
“An uneasiness in a horizontal posture attends it, but no disposition to incurvate the body forward.”
“But age doth not rectify, but incurvate our natures, turning bad dispositions into worser habits, and (like diseases) brings on incurable vices; for every day, as we grow weaker in age, we grow stronger in sin, and the number of our days doth but make our sins innumerable.”
“In the, we lister be incurvate for the illuminant to butchering columbidae and reverence with cloistral adhd.”
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