| 释义 |
enclosed, inclosed, ppl. a.|ɛn-, ɪnˈkləʊzd|
[f. enclose v. + -ed1.]
a. In the senses of the verb. spec. of religious communities who are secluded from relations with the outside world.
1552Huloet, Inclosed, inclusus. 1573–80Baret Alv. I. 94 Inclosed: shut in. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1673) 361 To shew the food of tame and enclosed Lions. 1648Gage West Ind. xviii. (1655) 122 Which I shall observe with inclosed Parentheses as I goe along. 1797T. Bewick Brit. Birds (1847) I. 355 They prefer woody and heathy wastes to inclosed ground. 1848Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 312 A region..which contained only three houses and scarcely any enclosed fields. 1884Addis & Arnold Cath. Dict. (1897) 911/2 The nuns were to be strictly enclosed. 1905Athenæum 30 Sept. 431/1 Catherine de' Ricci belonged to an enclosed community of Dominican Tertiaries. 1957Oxf. Dict. Chr. Ch. 296/2 The enclosure is more strict in women's orders than men's, and most strict of all in the enclosed orders.
b. quasi-n. A letter or other enclosure within a letter.
1618J. Chamberlain Let. 5 May (1939) II. 162 The inclosed stands me in two shillings. c1645Howell Lett. (1650) II. 23 Yours of the third of August came to safe hand in an inclos'd from my brother. 1707Addison Lett. (1941) 72, I was to wait on you..with the enclosed from the Ambassadour Cornara. 1839Dickens Let. 25 Jan. (1965) I. 494 The best way of answering the inclosed which I found lying at home last night. |