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† ˈclausure Obs.
Also 5 clawser, 6 clawsure, clawesure.
[ad. L. clausūra closing, barrier, f. claudĕre to close: cf. closure.]
1. The action of closing or enclosing, closure.
c1440Promp. Parv. 80 Clausure or clos [1499 clawser], Clausura. 1669Woodhead St. Teresa ii. vi. 42 Clausure, shutting up the Grates, &c. 1670G. H. Hist. Cardinals iii. ii. 282 The dispute..protracted the clausure [of the conclave].
2. Closed or shut up condition.
1582N. T. (Rhem.) John xx. 19 Note in T. Cartwright, Confut. Rhem. N.T. (1618) 243 He also came out of his mothers wombe, the clausure not sturred. 1669Woodhead St. Teresa ii. v. 33 Clausure, Penance, and other Austerities. a1714Geddes (J.), In some monasteries the severity of the Clausure is hard to be born. 1815Southey Sir T. More (1829) II. 331 In this respect the clausure is complete. Ibid. 333 There is no vow, no clausure.
b. Med. Imperforated (or clogged, obstructed) condition of any canal or cavity in the body.
1585Lloyd Treas. Health I ij, Gume of a Peache..openeth the inward clawesures of the breste.
3. An enclosed place, an enclosure, a close.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. clii. (1495) 704 Wythin the closynge or the clausure of the temple. 1609Manch. Court Leet Records (1885) II. 246 One clausure of land called Shiponley.
4. That which encloses; an enclosure; a bar.
1450–1530Myrr. our Ladye 254 He hath broken the clausures of deth. 1460J. Capgrave Chron. 237 Alle clausures of wodis thei distroyed. 1511Abp. Warham's Visitation in Brit. Mag. XXXII. 41 The clausure of the churchyard in the north side lacketh reparation. 1669Woodhead St. Teresa ii. xv. 111, I made them begin the Walls, to the end it might have such Clausure, as was fitting.
5. An enclosing case or cover.
1564Becon Acts of Christ & Antichr. (1844) 521 Old rotten bones or reliques of saints..in precious shrines and costly clausures. 1567Drant Horace's Epist. i. xiii, Thou shalte presente to August hand my bokes in clawsure tyed. |