incube

See also: íncube and incubé

English

Verb

incube (third-person singular simple present incubes, present participle incubing, simple past and past participle incubed)

1. 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.

2. 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

Etymology

Inherited from Old French incube, borrowed from Latin incubus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.kyb/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -yb

Noun

incube m (plural incubes)

1. incubus

Verb

incube

1. inflection of incuber:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

See also

• succube

Further reading

• “incube”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈin.ku.be/, [ˈɪŋkʊbɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈin.ku.be/, [ˈiŋkube]

Noun

incube m

1. vocative singular of incubus

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin incubus.

Noun

incube oblique singular, m (oblique plural incubes, nominative singular incubes, nominative plural incube)

1. incubus

Descendants

• French: incube

Portuguese

Verb

incube

1. inflection of incubar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

incube

1. inflection of incubar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative