incube
English edit
Verb edit
incube (third-person singular simple present incubes, present participle incubing, simple past and past participle incubed)
- To bury or encase.
- 1642 (indicated as 1641), John Milton, The Reason of Church-governement Urg’d against Prelaty […], London: […] E[dward] G[riffin] for Iohn Rothwell, […], →OCLC:
- it is the most dividing and schismatical form that geometricians know of , and must be fain to inglobe or incube herself among the presbyters
- 1902, Koresh, The Immortal Manhood, page 63:
- The social order incubed in the cosmic cell will be an empire, because the physical sphere is itself imperial.
- 1998, Extended Abstracts - Part 3, page 1558:
- Apatite crystals incubed in soil presented numerous corrosion marks as denticulated margin.
- 2003, Maud Ellmann, Elizabeth Bowen: The Shadow Across the Page, page 181:
- Poking round the attic, Jane discovered a packet of Guy's love letters incubed in the same trunk as the muslin gown.
- To incubate.
- 1973, Salvatore Raiti, Advances in Human Growth Hormone Research, page 82:
- Cartilage was incubed for 24 hours in basal medium containing 0.1 % ovalbumin with or without additions.
- 1993, Gail L. Woods, Yezid Gutierrez, Diagnostic Pathology of Infectious Diseases, page 576:
- During the initial incubation bottles incubed aerobically are agitated on a rotary shaker.
- 1994, Dr. B. K. Sharma, Water Pollution, page 377:
- After inoculation the broth tubes are incubed at 37 ± 2 ° C for 48 hours.
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French incube, borrowed from Latin incubus.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
incube m (plural incubes)
Verb edit
incube
- inflection of incuber:
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “incube”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈin.ku.be/, [ˈɪŋkʊbɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈin.ku.be/, [ˈiŋkube]
Noun edit
incube m
Old French edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
incube oblique singular, m (oblique plural incubes, nominative singular incubes, nominative plural incube)
Descendants edit
- French: incube
Portuguese edit
Verb edit
incube
- inflection of incubar:
Spanish edit
Verb edit
incube
- inflection of incubar: