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To fix firmly, as in cube; to secure or place firmly. [Obs.] Milton.

Incubation. [Obs.] J. Ellis.

Having the leaves so placed that the upper part of each one covers the base of the leaf next above it, as in hepatic mosses of the genus Frullania. See Succubous.

A demon; a fiend; a lascivious spirit, supposed to have sexual intercourse with women by night. Tylor. The devils who appeared in the female form were generally called succubi; those who appeared like men incubi, though this distinction was not always preserved. Lecky.

To teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions; to urge on the mind; as, Christ inculcates on his followers humility. The most obvious and necessary duties of life they have not yet had authority enough to enforce and inculcate upon men's minds. S. Clarke.

A teaching and impressing by frequent repetitions. Bp. Hall.

One who inculcates. Boyle.

To inculcate. [Obs.] Sir T. More.

To inculpate. [Obs.] Shelton.

Faultless; blameless; innocent. South. An innocent and incupable piece of ignorance. Killingbeck.

Blamelessness; faultlessness.

Blamelessly. South.

To blame; to impute guilt to; to accuse; to involve or implicate in guilt. That risk could only exculpate her and not inculpate them -- the probabilities protected them so perfectly. H. James.

Blame; censure; crimination. Jefferson.

Imputing blame; criminatory; compromising; implicating.

Untilled; uncultivated; crude; rude; uncivilized. Germany then, says Tacitus, was incult and horrid, now full of magnificent cities. Burton. His style is diffuse and incult. M. W. Shelley.

Uncultivated. [Obs.] Sir T. Herbert.

Want of cultivation. [Obs.] Berington.

Want or neglect of cultivation or culture. [Obs.] Feltham.

The state of being incumbent; a lying or resting on something.