encysted

verb

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

adj

1. (not-comparable)Contained in a cyst.
2. (not-comparable)Enclosed in a sac, or invested with a coating when in a non-motile state, like some unicellular plants.
3. (figuratively, not-comparable)Embedded, enclosed.

   “This group included many who had been deeply encysted within the corporative fabric of the Bourbon polity – plus many for whom the chips did not fall well.”