encastellate

English

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(transitive, obsolete) Alternative form of incastellate: to make into a castle.
- a. 1552 John Leland, Itinerary, Vol. I, p. 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, p. 522:
  The Auncient mannor place at Arkland he did encastellate.