† incrystalv.
Obsolete.
1. transitive (and intransitive). To turn into crystal, to crystallize v.
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1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Inchristallire, to encristall, or become cristall.
2. To enclose in crystal.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > enclose [verb (transitive)] > enclose in a receptacle or surrounding mass > in or as a surrounding mass > specific
bark1633
incrystal1648
1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. D8 That Houre-glasse..With Water fill'd..The humour was..But Lovers tears inchristalled.
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 35 I have artificially frozen all the said Liquor into a mass of Ice, wherein all these Animals it seemed lay incrystalled.
Derivatives
inˈcrystalled adj. crystallized.
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the world > matter > chemistry > crystallography (general) > crystallization > [adjective] > crystallized
incrystalleda1649
crystallized1651
roched1666
a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 29/1 The next enchristall'd Light Submits to him its Beams, And he doth trace the Height Of that fair Lamp.
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