enclosedinclosedadj.
/ɛnˈkləʊzd/, /ɛŋˈkləʊzd/, /ᵻnˈkləʊzd/, /ᵻŋˈkləʊzd/, U.S. /ɛnˈkloʊzd/, /ᵻnˈkloʊzd/ a. In the senses of the verb. spec. of religious communities who are secluded from relations with the outside world.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > [adjective] > enclosed
closedc1275
clausedc1440
conclosec1450
close1489
caseda1500
enclosed1552
included1552
bayed1577
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [adjective] > enclosed in pen, stall, etc.
enclosed1552
stalled1560
impent1633
shedded1850
ox-fenced1852
penning1854
coted1866
impounded1888
the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [adjective] > enclosed
hained14..
inned1629
enclosed1826
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > [adjective] > enclosed > specifically of ground
hained14..
upshetc1440
inned1629
enclosed1826
society > faith > church government > monasticism > [adjective] > enclosed
encloistered1550
enclosed1884
society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > [adjective] > confined
encloistered1550
cloistereda1616
enclosed1884
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Inclosed, inclusus.
1574 J. Baret Aluearie I 79 Inclosed: shutte in.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 463 To shew the food of tame and enclosed lyons.
1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. (1655) xviii. 122 Which I shall observe with inclosed Parentheses as I goe along.
1826 T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds (ed. 6) I. 346 They prefer woody and heathy wastes, to inclosed ground.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 312 A region..which contained only three houses and scarcely any enclosed fields.
1884 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. 826/1 The nuns were to be strictly enclosed.
1905 Athenæum 30 Sept. 431/1 Catherine de' Ricci belonged to an enclosed community of Dominican Tertiaries.
1957 F. L. Cross Oxf. Dict. Christian Church 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.
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society > communication > correspondence > letter > [noun] > enclosure
enclosed1618
enclose1648
enclosure1776
1618 J. Chamberlain Let. 5 May (1939) II. 162 The inclosed stands me in two shillings.
1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. xiv. 25 Yours of the third of August, came to safe hand in an inclos'd from my Brother.
1707 J. Addison Lett. (1941) 72 I was to wait on you..with the enclosed from the Ambassadour Cornara.
1839 C. Dickens Let. ?25 Jan. (1965) I. 494 The best way of answering the inclosed which I found lying at home last night.
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