v. [f. EN-1 + CYST.] trans. To enclose in a cyst, capsule or bag; only in pa. pple. and refl.

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1845.  Budd, Dis. Liver, 272. Gall-stones in the substance of the liver … are often encysted.

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1854.  Woodward, Mollusca (1856), 67. Shell represented by two short styles, encysted in the substance of the mantle. (Owen.)

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1882.  Nature, XXVI. The cercaria … soon came to rest, showing a tendency to encyst itself on surrounding objects.

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  fig.  1873.  Symonds, Grk. Poets, xii. 418. Even in Pindar, moral mysticism is, as it were, encysted, like an alien deposit, in the more vital substance of æsthetic conceptions.

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