encased

adj

1. Enclosed; existing within a container.

   “Whether material or spiritual, this is not the environment we know; even the most encased of physical beings, and the most unexperienced modes of being spiritual, are present to each other in expectation of experience if in no other way.”

   “"She was quite stiff," he recalled. "I don't think she really enjoyed it. She felt very encased in her body."”

   “We were not a big huggie family so I was very, very encased in a little stay-away-from-me shell growing-up, and here I got to open up and feel safe and able to touch and hold and be able to be with another human being, which was really a big relief, a very positive part of my understanding of myself that I wasn't just this outcast evil outsider of everything.”

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of encase