disclosev.

Brit.

/dɪˈskləʊz/, U.S.

/dəˈskloʊz/

Forms: Middle English desclose, Middle English discloose, Middle English– disclose, Middle English– 1500s dysclose, 1500s–1600s disclosse; also Scottish pre-1700 disclois.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French disclos-, disclore, discloser.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman disclos-, Anglo-Norman and Middle French desclos-, stem of Anglo-Norman disclore (also discloser, with remodelling after the stem), desclorre, descloer (also descloser), Anglo-Norman and Middle French desclore (Middle French, French déclore ) to open, unlock (something which is closed) (c1174 in Old French; c1100 in sense ‘to split (a piece of armour) open’), to reveal (new or secret information) (beginning of the 13th cent. or earlier), to uncover and expose to view (c1235 or earlier), to open up (13th cent.), (of an egg) to hatch (13th cent.), (of hens) to hatch eggs (intransitive; beginning of the 14th cent. or earlier) < des- des- prefix + clore close v. Compare post-classical Latin disclaudere (12th cent. in British sources), Old Occitan desclaure . Compare declose v., and also disclude v., unclose v.The Anglo-Norman and English forms in dis- , dys- show remodelling after classical Latin dis- dis- prefix. In sense 3a originally after Middle French esclore (beginning of the 13th cent. in Old French in this sense; French éclore).

I. Physical senses.

1. transitive. To uncover and expose to view (anything material); to remove a covering from; to reveal, allow to be seen.In quot. a1393: to see, perceive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > uncover or remove covering from [verb (transitive)] > uncover and expose

unwryc825

bareOE

unhelec1000

uncoverc1390

disclosea1393

to lay outa1400

unhidea1400

declose14..

unbare1530

discover1563

imbear1657

fleece1667

unfence1715

to lay bare1807

to open out1832

strip1839

expose1851

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 4030 As sche that was with Air enclosed And mihte of noman be desclosed.

c1450 (?c1425) St. Elizabeth of Spalbeck in Anglia (1885) 8 115 It maye not be perceyued þat she holdith þe sacramente in hir mouþe..or swolowes or decloseþ hit in her mouþe.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 518/1 I disclose, I uncover a thing that is hydde..This treasure shall never be disclosed for me.

1611 Bible (King James) Isa. xxvi. 21 The earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more couer her slain.

1696 N. Tate & N. Brady New Version Psalms of David cvi. 9 The parting Deep disclos'd her Sand.

1744 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons (new ed.) 73 Deep to the Root Of Vegetation parch'd, the cleaving Fields..an arid Hue disclose.

1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc x. 197 The open helm Disclosed that eye.

1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Leila i. iv. 29 Her full rich lips disclosed teeth that might have shamed the pearl.

1892 Rep. U.S. National Mus. 441 The key plates are brass bats, the bodies of which turn aside disclosing the keyholes.

1935 N.Y. Evening Jrnl. 7 May Lassies who daily peel off enveloping garments..to disclose their curvesome charms.

1990 S. S. Tepper Raising Stones ii. ii. 251 A wind came up to clear the mists and disclose the rock-pimpled surface of the heaving seas.

†2.

a. transitive. To open up (something which is closed or shut); to unfold, unfurl; to unfasten. In later use chiefly of trees, plants, etc. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > open [verb (transitive)]

undoc893

untinec950

openOE

to-doOE

undita1225

leesea1325

unfolda1325

unspeara1325

unclosea1350

to open upa1400

disclose?1440

opea1450

unlock?1548

uncask1594

unhinge1624

unsluice1652

reserate1657

tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) ii. l. 331 Almaundes me may make..her shellis to disclose [L. aperta testa].

c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 3632 Þire Olifantis..disclosid þai þe chaviles.

a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 142 Thow shalt thy graunges and thy gerners opyn, thy Sillers disclose.

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 66^v It [sc. a rosebud] discloseth it selfe and spreadeth abrode.

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. v. sig. E3^v Full oft about her wast she it enclos'd; And it as oft was from about her wast disclos'd .

1596 B. Griffin Fidessa xxxi. sig. C8 Armes still imbrace and neuer be disclosed.

1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets liv. sig. D4 The perfumed tincture of the Roses..When sommers breath their masked buds discloses .

1677 J. Dryden State Innocence iii. i. 16 Thy Myrtle, Orange, and the blushing Rose, With bending heaps so nigh their blooms disclose.

1737 Gentleman's Mag. May 305/2 Genial rays support the languent shoot, Disclose the bud, and ripen it to fruit.

1798 Weekly Mag. 24 Feb. 116/2 The elder-tree discloses its flower-buds.

1828 B. F. Powell Bible of Reason i. 18 The vernal warmth causes trees and plants to disclose their blossoms.

1861 Harper's New Monthly Mag. Oct. 678/1 For she was coy as is a backward spring That will not take possession of delight Nor all its buds disclose.

b. intransitive. To become open; to be opened up. In later use also, of a tree or plant: to bud, bloom. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > become open [verb (intransitive)]

openOE

undo1122

unlouk1340

unfoldc1350

unshut1390

unclosea1398

opena1400

waltc1400

unstopc1440

twirl?1523

disclosec1586

c1586 J. Stewart Poems (1913) 131 As the sone maks mariguld disclois.

1591 W. Garrard & R. Hitchcock Arte of Warre 101 Which upon occasion disclosing again may let out the shot.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) To Disclose..to bud, blow, or put out Leaves.

1727 J. Thomson Summer 62 Over Head, a Sheet Of various Flame discloses wide, then shuts And opens wider.

1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 243 My thighs, now obedient to the intimations of love and nature, gladly disclose, and with a ready submission resign up the soft gateway to entrance at pleasure.

1808 J. Walker Econ. Hist. Hebrides II. ix. 38 If it is to be made into hay, it should be cut soon after the 10th of that month, before its flowers disclose.

†3.

a. transitive. To cause (a young animal) to hatch from the egg. Also occasionally: to lay (an egg). Obsolete (in later use chiefly Entomology).In quot. 1596: (figurative) to devise or contrive (mischief). Cf. hatch v.¹ 5b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [verb (transitive)] > hatch

disclosec1450

unclose1486

c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 112 A brid that men clepeden sum time lucifer bredde me Was ther neuere of brid so euele a bredinge brid For anoon as j was disclosed [Fr. si tost com esclose fu] and that j..aperceyuede my fader [etc.].

1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. aij Now to speke of hawkys, first thay been Egges, and afterwarde they bene disclosed hawkys.

1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) x. lv. 247 Papists here, forren, and Land-leapt Foes, Did Mischiefes that imported more our practiz'd State disclose.

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. i. 284 Anon as patient as the female Doue When that her golden cuplets are disclosed .

1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xxx. 122 They leave the eggs there till they think the young ones are disclosed.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 115 Snakes, familiar, to the Hearth succeed, Disclose their Eggs, and near the Chimny breed.

1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 322 Forcing Eggs to disclose their Young by the artificial Heat of an Oven.

1753 J. Hill Inspector I. 57 An egg just disclosing a fine white worm.

1817 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. II. xvi. 21 As soon as one of these young caterpillars is disclosed from the egg, it begins to feed.

1899 D. Sharp in Cambr. Nat. Hist. VI. i. 29 For a considerable time the two larvae so disclosed consume together the stock of provisions.

b. transitive. spec. To cause (an egg) to hatch. Also intransitive: (of an egg) to hatch. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > hen or cock > [verb (transitive)] > hatch chickens (of hen)

disclose1611

clutch1774

1611 S. Veghelman tr. J. de L'Espine Three Godly Treat. ii. 209 A Hen brooding of her egges, by a secret vertue doth disclose and bring them to life.

1626 T. Hawkins tr. N. Caussin Holy Court I. 166 If the hen brood not her eggs, she hath no desire to make them disclose.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §856 It is reported by the ancients, that the ostrich layeth her eggs under the sand, where the heat of the sun discloseth them.

II. Non-physical senses.

a. transitive. To make openly known; to reveal (esp. new or secret information). Also intransitive.Now the most common sense.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > disclose or reveal [verb (transitive)]

unwryc825

unhelec1000

to draw forthc1175

unhillc1200

to bring forth?c1225

unsteekc1250

let witc1275

uncovera1300

wraya1300

knowc1300

barea1325

shrivec1374

unwrapc1374

again-covera1382

nakena1382

outc1390

tellc1390

disclosea1393

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unhidea1400

unclosec1400

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reveal1409

accusea1413

reveil1424

unlocka1425

unrekec1425

disclude?1440

uncurec1440

utter1444

detect1447

break1463

expose1483

divinec1500

revelate1514

to bring (also put) to light1526

decipher1529

rake1547

rip1549

unshadow1550

to lay to sight1563

uppen1565

unlace1567

unvisor?1571

resign1572

uncloak1574

disshroud1577

spill1577

reap1578

unrip1579

scour1585

unharboura1586

unmask1586

uncase1587

descrya1591

unclasp?1592

unrive1592

discover1594

unburden1594

untomb1594

unhusk1596

dismask1598

to open upc1600

untruss1600

divulge1602

unshale1606

unbrace1607

unveil1609

rave1610

disveil1611

unface1611

unsecret1612

unvizard1620

to open up1624

uncurtain1628

unscreen1628

unbare1630

disenvelop1632

unclothe1632

to lay forth1633

unshroud1633

unmuffle1637

midwife1638

dissecret1640

unseal1640

unmantle1643

to fetch out1644

undisguise1655

disvelop1658

decorticate1660

clash1667

exert1692

disinter1711

to up with1715

unbundlea1739

develop1741

disembosom1745

to open out1814

to let out1833

unsack1846

uncrown1849

to bring (out) in (also into) the open1861

unfrock1866

disbosom1868

to blow the lid off1928

flush1950

surface1955

to take or pull the wraps off1964

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 4489 I dar min herte wel desclose.

c1450 tr. G. Boccaccio De Claris Mulieribus (1924) l. 406 Than hir self she gan for-to disclose, Feryde not to tell and vttyre pleyne, Whatt she wass.

1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xxix. 142 They are not all disposed So for to do as ye have here disclosed.

1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Svij If you wil promise me to kepe that close, which I shal disclose vnto you.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) ii. i. 297 Tell me your Counsels, I will not disclose 'em.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 122 Their Arms, their Arts, their Manners I disclose .

1714 A. Pope Rape of Lock (new ed.) ii. 11 Her lively Looks a sprightly Mind disclose.

1726 W. R. Chetwood Voy. & Adventures Capt. R. Boyle 46 As for disclosing the Secret, it is what I never can do.

1789 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. vi. 46 Having been determined..not to disclose a fact, although he should be put to the rack, he perseveres in such resolution.

1831 Reg. Deb. Congr. U.S. 13 Dec. 1431 The vote..will be far from disclosing the actual opinions of members in regard to rechartering the bank.

1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations xxxvi. in All Year Round 27 Apr. 98/2 ‘When that person discloses’, said Mr. Jaggers, straightening himself, ‘you and that person will settle your own affairs.’

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People iii. §2. 121 The great league which John had so long matured at last disclosed itself.

1936 Jrnl. Higher Educ. 7 157 Investigation..disclosed that the president had sold M.A. degrees for $25 each.

1995 Guardian 4 Nov. 4/5 All we ask is that in the public interest they disclose the money they earn from advisorships, consultancies because they are MPs.

†b. intransitive. Esp. of new or secret information: to be revealed; to come to light. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > disclose or make revelations [verb (intransitive)] > be disclosed or revealed

to come to (also in, on) (the) lightOE

sutelea1000

kitheOE

unfoldc1350

disclosea1513

burst1542

to break up1584

to take vent1611

vent1622

bleed1645

emerge1664

to get (also have) vent1668

to get or take wind1668

to stand (appear) confessed1708

eclat1736

perspire1748

transpire1748

to come out1751

develop1805

unroll1807

spunk1808

effloresce1834

to come to the front1871

to show up1879

out1894

evolve1920

to come or crawl out of the woodwork1964

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. xxxiii The displeasure atwene the kynge & his Barons began to appere and disclose.

1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xii. sig. I8^v Vices..which I can see, when they doe disclose in them.

1737 G. Lillo Fatal Curiosity iii. 44 Heard you that? What prodigy of horror is disclosing? To render murther venial.

†5. transitive. To make apparent or clear; to find out, discover. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > find out, discover [verb (transitive)]

seeOE

fanda1000

finda1200

kenc1330

lenda1350

agropea1393

contrive1393

to find outc1405

outsearch?a1439

ripec1440

inventc1475

disclose?a1500

fish1531

agnize?1570

discover1585

to grope out1590

out-find1590

expiscate1598

vent1611

to learn out1629

to get to know1643

develop1653

ascertain1794

stag1796

root1866

to get a line on1903

establish1919

the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > finding or discovery > find or discover [verb (transitive)] > a thing or person hidden

decipher1528

disclose1599

develop1653

?a1500 Court of Love (Trin. Cambr. R.3.19) l. 109 in K. Forni Chaucerian Apocrypha (2005) Many a thowsand other, bright of face... But whate thay were, I cowde not well disclose.

1599 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum (1632) 168 He was disclosed and ceased [= seized] on by his Master.

?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xxi. 467 Old Priam in his sacred tow'r stood, and the flight disclos'd On his forc'd people, all in rout.

1879 Psyche (Cambr. (Mass.) Entomol. Club) 2 236 The circular fibrous area..has an interruption, which..appears to be a concave groove, the exact nature of which I did not succeed in disclosing.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	disclose
释义	disclosen. Brit. /dᵻˈskləʊz/, U.S. /dᵻˈskloʊz/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: disclose v. Etymology: < disclose v. Compare earlier close n.², and also earlier disclosing n., disclosure n. Now rare. = disclosure n. (in various senses). ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > [noun] discoveringa1375 nakeninga1382 bewrayingc1386 detection1471 discoverture?1473 revelationc1485 disclosinga1513 disclosurea1525 disclose1548 overture1548 patefaction1553 displaying1556 discovery1567 unripping1568 revealment1576 discoverment1578 retection1581 unmaskinga1586 unclasping?1592 denudation1593 untrussing1597 uncovering1598 detecting1604 divulging1604 divulgation1610 unvizardinga1628 exposinga1631 divulgement1632 unbowellinga1639 unfolding1646 revealinga1649 unrolling1648 pre-discovery1653 discoverance1664 unshelling1670 development1760 unveilinga1774 disclosal1786 displayment1801 divulgence1851 revelationism1854 unbosoming1910 uncovery1963 the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [noun] > egg > hatching from egg disclosinga1513 disclose1548 hatch1622 disclosure1640 extrication1797 exclusion1835–6 hatch-out1895 1548 E. Gest Treat. againste Masse sig. Ai Wolde God..soch a person..had openly publyshed y^e worthy disclose and disprove of the unsufferable abhomination of the popyshe private pryvye masse. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. i. 169 There's something in his soule Ore which his melancholy sits on brood, And I doe doubt, the hatch and the disclose Will be some danger. View more context for this quotation 1622 G. Wither Faire-virtue sig. D5^v They [sc. those lips] are like in their discloses, To the mornings dewie roses. 1625 N. Brent tr. P. Sarpi Free Schoole of Warre 42 It is an Embryo that..waites the good houre for the disclose and deliuery. 1745 E. Young Consolation 78 Glasses..Have they not led us deep in the Disclose Of fine-spun Nature. 1849 J. V. Loomis Laws Common Carrying Trade 38 When the common carrier takes the goods in the ordinary way..the owner is not bound to volunteer a disclose of their value. 2007 P. G. Harwood & V. Asal Educating First Digital Generation v. 108 FERPA is set to prevent the disclose of student data. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † discloseadj. Forms: Middle English desclos, Middle English disclos, Middle English dyscloos. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French desclos, desclore. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French desclos (French déclos ) unprotected, exposed (c1180 in Old French), unmasked, exposed (1212), past participle of Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French desclore to disclose (see disclose v.).In form disclos apparently showing prefix substitution within English (compare dis- prefix). Obsolete. = disclosed adj. Usually as past participle. ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > [adjective] > disclosed or revealed disclosea1393 overtc1400 discovered1537 outgrown1549 disclosed1579 uncased1598 unfolded1602 unclasped1609 unbreasted1610 undisguised1671 revealed1827 disburied1835 exhumed1840 unbared1879 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iii. l. 192 For drede it scholde be disclos And come to hire fader Ere. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 6724 A Maiden, which was..kept so clos, That selden was whan sche desclos Goth with hir moder forto pleie. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2020). disclosev. Brit. /dɪˈskləʊz/, U.S. /dəˈskloʊz/ Forms: Middle English desclose, Middle English discloose, Middle English– disclose, Middle English– 1500s dysclose, 1500s–1600s disclosse; also Scottish pre-1700 disclois. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French disclos-, disclore, discloser. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman disclos-, Anglo-Norman and Middle French desclos-, stem of Anglo-Norman disclore (also discloser, with remodelling after the stem), desclorre, descloer (also descloser), Anglo-Norman and Middle French desclore (Middle French, French déclore ) to open, unlock (something which is closed) (c1174 in Old French; c1100 in sense ‘to split (a piece of armour) open’), to reveal (new or secret information) (beginning of the 13th cent. or earlier), to uncover and expose to view (c1235 or earlier), to open up (13th cent.), (of an egg) to hatch (13th cent.), (of hens) to hatch eggs (intransitive; beginning of the 14th cent. or earlier) < des- des- prefix + clore close v. Compare post-classical Latin disclaudere (12th cent. in British sources), Old Occitan desclaure . Compare declose v., and also disclude v., unclose v.The Anglo-Norman and English forms in dis- , dys- show remodelling after classical Latin dis- dis- prefix. In sense 3a originally after Middle French esclore (beginning of the 13th cent. in Old French in this sense; French éclore). I. Physical senses. 1. transitive. To uncover and expose to view (anything material); to remove a covering from; to reveal, allow to be seen.In quot. a1393: to see, perceive. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > uncover or remove covering from [verb (transitive)] > uncover and expose unwryc825 bareOE unhelec1000 uncoverc1390 disclosea1393 to lay outa1400 unhidea1400 declose14.. unbare1530 discover1563 imbear1657 fleece1667 unfence1715 to lay bare1807 to open out1832 strip1839 expose1851 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 4030 As sche that was with Air enclosed And mihte of noman be desclosed. c1450 (?c1425) St. Elizabeth of Spalbeck in Anglia (1885) 8 115 It maye not be perceyued þat she holdith þe sacramente in hir mouþe..or swolowes or decloseþ hit in her mouþe. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 518/1 I disclose, I uncover a thing that is hydde..This treasure shall never be disclosed for me. 1611 Bible (King James) Isa. xxvi. 21 The earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more couer her slain. View more context for this quotation 1696 N. Tate & N. Brady New Version Psalms of David cvi. 9 The parting Deep disclos'd her Sand. 1744 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons (new ed.) 73 Deep to the Root Of Vegetation parch'd, the cleaving Fields..an arid Hue disclose. 1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc x. 197 The open helm Disclosed that eye. 1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Leila i. iv. 29 Her full rich lips disclosed teeth that might have shamed the pearl. 1892 Rep. U.S. National Mus. 441 The key plates are brass bats, the bodies of which turn aside disclosing the keyholes. 1935 N.Y. Evening Jrnl. 7 May Lassies who daily peel off enveloping garments..to disclose their curvesome charms. 1990 S. S. Tepper Raising Stones ii. ii. 251 A wind came up to clear the mists and disclose the rock-pimpled surface of the heaving seas. †2. a. transitive. To open up (something which is closed or shut); to unfold, unfurl; to unfasten. In later use chiefly of trees, plants, etc. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > open [verb (transitive)] undoc893 untinec950 openOE to-doOE undita1225 leesea1325 unfolda1325 unspeara1325 unclosea1350 to open upa1400 disclose?1440 opea1450 unlock?1548 uncask1594 unhinge1624 unsluice1652 reserate1657 tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) ii. l. 331 Almaundes me may make..her shellis to disclose [L. aperta testa]. c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 3632 Þire Olifantis..disclosid þai þe chaviles. a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 142 Thow shalt thy graunges and thy gerners opyn, thy Sillers disclose. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 66^v It [sc. a rosebud] discloseth it selfe and spreadeth abrode. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. v. sig. E3^v Full oft about her wast she it enclos'd; And it as oft was from about her wast disclos'd . View more context for this quotation 1596 B. Griffin Fidessa xxxi. sig. C8 Armes still imbrace and neuer be disclosed. 1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets liv. sig. D4 The perfumed tincture of the Roses..When sommers breath their masked buds discloses . View more context for this quotation 1677 J. Dryden State Innocence iii. i. 16 Thy Myrtle, Orange, and the blushing Rose, With bending heaps so nigh their blooms disclose. 1737 Gentleman's Mag. May 305/2 Genial rays support the languent shoot, Disclose the bud, and ripen it to fruit. 1798 Weekly Mag. 24 Feb. 116/2 The elder-tree discloses its flower-buds. 1828 B. F. Powell Bible of Reason i. 18 The vernal warmth causes trees and plants to disclose their blossoms. 1861 Harper's New Monthly Mag. Oct. 678/1 For she was coy as is a backward spring That will not take possession of delight Nor all its buds disclose. b. intransitive. To become open; to be opened up. In later use also, of a tree or plant: to bud, bloom. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > become open [verb (intransitive)] openOE undo1122 unlouk1340 unfoldc1350 unshut1390 unclosea1398 opena1400 waltc1400 unstopc1440 twirl?1523 disclosec1586 c1586 J. Stewart Poems (1913) 131 As the sone maks mariguld disclois. 1591 W. Garrard & R. Hitchcock Arte of Warre 101 Which upon occasion disclosing again may let out the shot. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) To Disclose..to bud, blow, or put out Leaves. 1727 J. Thomson Summer 62 Over Head, a Sheet Of various Flame discloses wide, then shuts And opens wider. 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 243 My thighs, now obedient to the intimations of love and nature, gladly disclose, and with a ready submission resign up the soft gateway to entrance at pleasure. 1808 J. Walker Econ. Hist. Hebrides II. ix. 38 If it is to be made into hay, it should be cut soon after the 10th of that month, before its flowers disclose. †3. a. transitive. To cause (a young animal) to hatch from the egg. Also occasionally: to lay (an egg). Obsolete (in later use chiefly Entomology).In quot. 1596: (figurative) to devise or contrive (mischief). Cf. hatch v.¹ 5b. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [verb (transitive)] > hatch disclosec1450 unclose1486 c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 112 A brid that men clepeden sum time lucifer bredde me Was ther neuere of brid so euele a bredinge brid For anoon as j was disclosed [Fr. si tost com esclose fu] and that j..aperceyuede my fader [etc.]. 1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. aij Now to speke of hawkys, first thay been Egges, and afterwarde they bene disclosed hawkys. 1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) x. lv. 247 Papists here, forren, and Land-leapt Foes, Did Mischiefes that imported more our practiz'd State disclose. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. i. 284 Anon as patient as the female Doue When that her golden cuplets are disclosed . View more context for this quotation 1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xxx. 122 They leave the eggs there till they think the young ones are disclosed. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 115 Snakes, familiar, to the Hearth succeed, Disclose their Eggs, and near the Chimny breed. View more context for this quotation 1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 322 Forcing Eggs to disclose their Young by the artificial Heat of an Oven. 1753 J. Hill Inspector I. 57 An egg just disclosing a fine white worm. 1817 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. II. xvi. 21 As soon as one of these young caterpillars is disclosed from the egg, it begins to feed. 1899 D. Sharp in Cambr. Nat. Hist. VI. i. 29 For a considerable time the two larvae so disclosed consume together the stock of provisions. b. transitive. spec. To cause (an egg) to hatch. Also intransitive: (of an egg) to hatch. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > hen or cock > [verb (transitive)] > hatch chickens (of hen) disclose1611 clutch1774 1611 S. Veghelman tr. J. de L'Espine Three Godly Treat. ii. 209 A Hen brooding of her egges, by a secret vertue doth disclose and bring them to life. 1626 T. Hawkins tr. N. Caussin Holy Court I. 166 If the hen brood not her eggs, she hath no desire to make them disclose. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §856 It is reported by the ancients, that the ostrich layeth her eggs under the sand, where the heat of the sun discloseth them. II. Non-physical senses. 4. a. transitive. To make openly known; to reveal (esp. new or secret information). Also intransitive.Now the most common sense. ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > disclose or reveal [verb (transitive)] unwryc825 unhelec1000 to draw forthc1175 unhillc1200 to bring forth?c1225 unsteekc1250 let witc1275 uncovera1300 wraya1300 knowc1300 barea1325 shrivec1374 unwrapc1374 again-covera1382 nakena1382 outc1390 tellc1390 disclosea1393 cough1393 unhidea1400 unclosec1400 unhaspc1400 bewrayc1405 reveal1409 accusea1413 reveil1424 unlocka1425 unrekec1425 disclude?1440 uncurec1440 utter1444 detect1447 break1463 expose1483 divinec1500 revelate1514 to bring (also put) to light1526 decipher1529 rake1547 rip1549 unshadow1550 to lay to sight1563 uppen1565 unlace1567 unvisor?1571 resign1572 uncloak1574 disshroud1577 spill1577 reap1578 unrip1579 scour1585 unharboura1586 unmask1586 uncase1587 descrya1591 unclasp?1592 unrive1592 discover1594 unburden1594 untomb1594 unhusk1596 dismask1598 to open upc1600 untruss1600 divulge1602 unshale1606 unbrace1607 unveil1609 rave1610 disveil1611 unface1611 unsecret1612 unvizard1620 to open up1624 uncurtain1628 unscreen1628 unbare1630 disenvelop1632 unclothe1632 to lay forth1633 unshroud1633 unmuffle1637 midwife1638 dissecret1640 unseal1640 unmantle1643 to fetch out1644 undisguise1655 disvelop1658 decorticate1660 clash1667 exert1692 disinter1711 to up with1715 unbundlea1739 develop1741 disembosom1745 to open out1814 to let out1833 unsack1846 uncrown1849 to bring (out) in (also into) the open1861 unfrock1866 disbosom1868 to blow the lid off1928 flush1950 surface1955 to take or pull the wraps off1964 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 4489 I dar min herte wel desclose. c1450 tr. G. Boccaccio De Claris Mulieribus (1924) l. 406 Than hir self she gan for-to disclose, Feryde not to tell and vttyre pleyne, Whatt she wass. 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xxix. 142 They are not all disposed So for to do as ye have here disclosed. 1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Svij If you wil promise me to kepe that close, which I shal disclose vnto you. a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) ii. i. 297 Tell me your Counsels, I will not disclose 'em. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 122 Their Arms, their Arts, their Manners I disclose . View more context for this quotation 1714 A. Pope Rape of Lock (new ed.) ii. 11 Her lively Looks a sprightly Mind disclose. 1726 W. R. Chetwood Voy. & Adventures Capt. R. Boyle 46 As for disclosing the Secret, it is what I never can do. 1789 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. vi. 46 Having been determined..not to disclose a fact, although he should be put to the rack, he perseveres in such resolution. 1831 Reg. Deb. Congr. U.S. 13 Dec. 1431 The vote..will be far from disclosing the actual opinions of members in regard to rechartering the bank. 1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations xxxvi. in All Year Round 27 Apr. 98/2 ‘When that person discloses’, said Mr. Jaggers, straightening himself, ‘you and that person will settle your own affairs.’ 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People iii. §2. 121 The great league which John had so long matured at last disclosed itself. 1936 Jrnl. Higher Educ. 7 157 Investigation..disclosed that the president had sold M.A. degrees for $25 each. 1995 Guardian 4 Nov. 4/5 All we ask is that in the public interest they disclose the money they earn from advisorships, consultancies because they are MPs. †b. intransitive. Esp. of new or secret information: to be revealed; to come to light. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > disclose or make revelations [verb (intransitive)] > be disclosed or revealed to come to (also in, on) (the) lightOE sutelea1000 kitheOE unfoldc1350 disclosea1513 burst1542 to break up1584 to take vent1611 vent1622 bleed1645 emerge1664 to get (also have) vent1668 to get or take wind1668 to stand (appear) confessed1708 eclat1736 perspire1748 transpire1748 to come out1751 develop1805 unroll1807 spunk1808 effloresce1834 to come to the front1871 to show up1879 out1894 evolve1920 to come or crawl out of the woodwork1964 a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. xxxiii The displeasure atwene the kynge & his Barons began to appere and disclose. 1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xii. sig. I8^v Vices..which I can see, when they doe disclose in them. 1737 G. Lillo Fatal Curiosity iii. 44 Heard you that? What prodigy of horror is disclosing? To render murther venial. †5. transitive. To make apparent or clear; to find out, discover. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > find out, discover [verb (transitive)] seeOE fanda1000 finda1200 kenc1330 lenda1350 agropea1393 contrive1393 to find outc1405 outsearch?a1439 ripec1440 inventc1475 disclose?a1500 fish1531 agnize?1570 discover1585 to grope out1590 out-find1590 expiscate1598 vent1611 to learn out1629 to get to know1643 develop1653 ascertain1794 stag1796 root1866 to get a line on1903 establish1919 the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > finding or discovery > find or discover [verb (transitive)] > a thing or person hidden decipher1528 disclose1599 develop1653 ?a1500 Court of Love (Trin. Cambr. R.3.19) l. 109 in K. Forni Chaucerian Apocrypha (2005) Many a thowsand other, bright of face... But whate thay were, I cowde not well disclose. 1599 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum (1632) 168 He was disclosed and ceased [= seized] on by his Master. ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xxi. 467 Old Priam in his sacred tow'r stood, and the flight disclos'd On his forc'd people, all in rout. 1879 Psyche (Cambr. (Mass.) Entomol. Club) 2 236 The circular fibrous area..has an interruption, which..appears to be a concave groove, the exact nature of which I did not succeed in disclosing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1548adj.a1393v.a1393
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