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Incrust   /ɪnkrˈəst/   Listen
verb
Incrust  v. t.  (past & past part. incrusted; pres. part. incrusting)  (Written also encrust)  
1.
To cover or line with a crust, or hard coat; to form a crust on the surface of; as, iron incrusted with rust; a vessel incrusted with salt; a sweetmeat incrusted with sugar. "And by the frost refin'd the whiter snow, Incrusted hard."
2.
(Fine Arts) To inlay into, as a piece of carving or other ornamental object.





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... Catholic Church, the High Priest became a temporal ruler, the Prince of Israel, as he was called; and kept the sacred city still the seat of government. As in Catholicism the institutionalizing of religion that followed the period of free prophetic life was an effort to embody that life, to incrust and thus preserve it; and, in the one case as in the other, though the crust of institutions choked the further growth of spiritual religion, it yet did keep it sluggishly alive within this hard bark, through times that else would have ...
— The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible • R. Heber Newton


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