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Definition of Encases
1. encase [v] - See also: encase
Lexicographical Neighbors of Encases
Literary usage of Encases
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Doctrine of the Resurrection of the Body Asserted and Defended: In by Robert Wharton Landis (1846)
"It encases the spirit while it is in the body; it encases it at its discharge
from the body; and it encases it after it has left the body. ..."
2. A Theoretical and practical treatise on midwifery: Including the Diseases of by Pierre Cazeaux (1857)
"... or frame, which encases it, just as the turgid conjunctiva surrounds the cornea
in chemosis. These two species may cither be partial or complete : the ..."
3. The Medical Times and Gazette (1875)
"You may rectify your error, however, by observing that the lymph closely encases
the medulla, which, of course, it could not do if it were in the arachnoid ..."
4. A Treatise on artificial limbs with rubber hands and feet by A. A. Marks (1896)
"The thigh piece encases the thigh and the knee-joints support the knee. ...
The structure consists of a socket that encases the leg, knee joints that ..."
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