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† inˈcrystal, v. Obs.
Also en-.
[f. in-2 + crystal n.]
1. trans. (and intr.) To turn into crystal, to crystallize.
1611Florio, Inchristallire, to encristall, or become cristall.
2. To enclose in crystal.
1648Herrick Hesper., Hour-glass, That Houre-glasse..With water fill'd..The humour was..But lovers tears inchristalled. 1664Power Exp. Philos. i. 35, I have artificially frozen all the said Liquor into a mass of Ice, wherein all these Animals it seemed lay incrystalled.
Hence inˈcrystalled ppl. a., crystallized.
a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Poems Wks. (1711) 29 The next enchristall'd light Submits to Him its beams; And He doth trace the height Of that fair lamp. |