encastellate

English

Verb

encastellate (third-person singular simple present encastellates, present participle encastellating, simple past and past participle encastellated)

1. (transitive, obsolete) Alternative form of incastellate: to make into a castle.
   • a. 1552, John Leland, Itinerary, volume I, page 61:

     ...Began first to encastellate it...

   • 1601, Francis Godwin, A Catalogue of the Bishops of England since the First Planting of Christian Religion in This Island, page 522:

     The Auncient mannor place at Arkland he did encastellate.