▪ I. incurvate, ppl. a.
(ɪnˈkɜːvət)
[ad. L. incurvāt-us, pa. pple. of incurvāre to incurve.]
= incurved.
| 1647 H. More Song of Soul ii. App. xc, Their [comets'] widend beards this aire so broad doth strow Incurvate. 17.. Hue & Cry Dr. S—ft in Somers Tracts I. 390 How does Man (a tender Twig) grow stubborn, incurvate, deformed. 1776–88 J. Lee Introd. Bot. Explan. Terms 380 The trunk or stem..Direction..Incurvatus, incurvate, bending inwards. 1846 Dana Zooph. (1848) 578 Large..spreading ramose, incurvate. |
▪ II. incurvate, v.
(ɪnˈkɜːveɪt, ˈɪn-)
[f. L. incurvāt-, ppl. stem of incurvāre to incurve. App. first in pa. pple., f. as prec. + -ed.]
1. trans. To bring into a curved shape; to bend from a straight line or form; to curve, to crook; now, spec., to bend or curve inwards.
| 1578 Banister Hist. Man i. 34 Obliquely stretching and incurvated. 1623 Cockeram Eng. Dict. 11, To Bow, Incuruate, Incline. 1650 Bulwer Anthropomet. 190 By their constant and foolish Fasciation..the Bones may be incurvated. 1714 Derham Astro-Theol. i. ii. note, A Micro⁓meter..which would incurvate the rays one way. 1822–34 Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) III. 438 The muscles are thrown into a rigid and permanent spasm, not incurvating the body as in..tetanus. |
| fig. 1643 Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. i. §42 Age doth not rectifie, but incurvate our natures. 1691 E. Taylor Behmen's Theos. Phil. 64 Decorateth or incurvateth his Mind towards Good or Evil. |
† 2. intr. To take or have a curved form; to curve, to bend or bow. Obs.
| 1647 Lilly Chr. Astrol. xvi. 99 The Body..not very straight, but incurvating somewhat with the Head. a 1697 Aubrey Lives, Denham (1898) I. 220 He was of the tallest, but a little incurvetting at his shoulders. |