Incardinare

Incardinare in the language of the Church of the Middle Ages, is the appointment of any strange bishop, presbyter, deacon, or a person of some other class of the priesthood, to this or that church, in which he was to perform services in part or exclusively, or even the appointment to one particular church. The election of a cardinal was also called incardinare, Fuhrmann, Handworterbuch d. Kirchengesch, 2, 435.