encysted
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɛnˈsɪstɪd/
- Rhymes: -ɪstɪd
Adjective
encysted (not comparable)
- (medicine) Contained in a cyst.
- (figuratively) Embedded, enclosed.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 545:
- This group included many who had been deeply encysted within the corporative fabric of the Bourbon polity – plus many for whom the chips did not fall well.
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