Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of inclosing in a case, or the state of being inclosed in or as if in a case.
  • noun That which forms a case or covering; any inclosing substance.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act or process of inclosing with a case, or the state of being incased.
  • noun That which forms a case, covering, or inclosure.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Archaic form of encasement.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the act of enclosing something in a case

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Examples

  • "If I should die in Paris I should expect them -- or some of them -- to meet me at the barriers and to say, 'Behold, the wickedness that was done in the world, the cruelty and the wrong, dwelt in the body, not in the soul of man, which freed from its foul incasement, purified and made eternal by the hand of death, shall see both the glory and the hand of God!'"

    Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography Henry Watterson 1880

  • "If I should die in Paris I should expect them -- or some of them -- to meet me at the barriers and to say, 'Behold, the wickedness that was done in the world, the cruelty and the wrong, dwelt in the body, not in the soul of man, which freed from its foul incasement, purified and made eternal by the hand of death, shall see both the glory and the hand of God!'"

    Marse Henry (Volume 2) An Autobiography Henry Watterson 1880

  • I look for a moment at the rich pulp in its soft incasement, and then try a delicious morsel.

    The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • I look for a moment at the rich pulp in its soft incasement, and then try

    Saunterings Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • "spermist," since he strongly argued against the incasement or

    Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work 1872

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