incastle

English

Alternative forms

• encastle, incastell (obsolete)

Etymology

From Mediaeval Latin incastellāre (“to fortify, to incastle”), from in- (“in-: make into”) + castellum (“little fortification, castle”). Cognate with Italian incastellare and Old French encasteler.

Verb

incastle (third-person singular simple present incastles, present participle incastling, simple past and past participle incastled)

1. (obsolete) To add castles to a place.
   • 1587, John Hooker translating Gerald of Wales as the "Vaticinall Historie of the Conquest of Ireland" in Chronicles, Vol. III, 47/2:

     Meth was alredie meetlie well and indifferentlie fortified and incastelled.

Synonyms

• See fortify

References

• "† in'castle, v." in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Anagrams

• canistel, lensatic