单词 | reclude |
释义 | recludev.ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > open [verb (transitive)] > a door, gate, etc. to do upOE to-thrustc1175 to weve upc1275 unshutc1315 to set upa1387 unyarka1400 to let up1400 yark upc1400 reclude?1440 dupa1549 dub1699 tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. 1069 (MED) Hem [sc. bees] softe enclude, And toward nyght her yatis thou reclude. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια viii. xvi. 587 This passage also is recluded or opened to giue way to the descending excrement. 1665 G. Harvey Disc. Plague (1673) xiv. 145 The Ingredients..reclude oppilations, mundifie the blood. 1756 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. (ed. 2) II. To Reclude, to open. 1784 C. Billinge Poems 28 When the last Trump's reanimating notes..O'er the dark face of Earth's distracted frame Shall sound—and Death's obstructed ear reclude. a1852 H. B. Wallace Literary Crit. & Other Papers (1856) 62 He does not seek to reclude those sacred fountains of the moral muse. 2. transitive. In later use chiefly reflexive. a. To shut up or confine (a thing or person); to close off, to obstruct access to. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > close or shut [verb (transitive)] beloukeOE tinea900 bitunc1000 forshutc1000 sparc1175 louka1225 bisteke?c1225 spear?c1225 closec1275 knita1398 fastena1400 upclosec1440 to shut up1526 reclude1550 upspeara1563 lucken1568 to make up1582 hatcha1586 belocka1616 1550 T. Nicolls in tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War Prol. f. iiiiv Holding it more comonly recluded and locked in the obscure and base vsage of sensualytie. 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 22 Neyther doth Os sacrum obscurely reclude, but playne, and largely open and discouer the passages on eche syde. 1631 ‘A. B.’ tr. L. Lessius Sir Walter Rawleigh's Ghost 280 The meanes for the wicked to their saluation should be recluded and shut vp. 1678 T. Overbury Ratiocinium Vernaculum xiv. 64 When mens opinions are recluded and lock't within their own Breasts, the Magistrate never concerns himself about them. a1843 R. Southey Common-place Bk. (1850) 3rd Ser. 401 A King and Queen recluded. 1954 W. Faulkner Fable 403 The sergeant..was a dour introvert who had recluded himself in an empty compartment forward with a pornographic magazine. 2002 S. Skubal Word of Mouth iii. 81 She arranges to..build a chapel to the Sisters of the Blessed Virgin and recludes herself in a cell she has constructed. b. To cut (a person) off from the world, society, etc.; to seclude from. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > seclude [verb (transitive)] reclusea1400 sequesterc1430 withdrawa1450 sequestrate1513 solitary1581 reclude1598 seclude1629 bury1711 recess1795 backwater1885 society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > seclude [verb (reflexive)] sequesterc1430 seclude1749 bury1782 reclude1911 1598 in T. G. Law Archpriest Controv. (1896) I. 51 You are not recluded from the world to disquiett the world. 1601 C. Bagshaw Sparing Discov. Eng. Iesuits 24 The partie at the time appointed..is recluded from the speech of any body but the sayd Father for a certaine time. 1657 W. Morice Coena quasi Κοινὴ Def. xv. 208 Eastern people..think it conduceth to the Majesty of their Kings to be recluded and shut up from publick intercourse. 1911 M. Beerbohm Zuleika Dobson ii. 22 No woman who knows that of herself can be rightly censured for not recluding herself from the world. 1976 Crisis of Culture 106 I would like to know how you can seclude yourself, reclude yourself from the life-world. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > be on the outside of [verb (transitive)] > keep or shut out > specific things exclude1598 reclude1634 1634 W. Tirwhyt tr. J. L. G. de Balzac Lett. 359 To small purpose had they recluded the power of strangers. Derivatives reˈcluded adj. ΚΠ 1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. Thesaurarye sig. a5v/2 The recludede Parrates Bille. 1655 T. Fuller Triana (new ed.) 4 Heightning the happinesse of a recluded Life to the Skie, and above it. 1880 in T. H. Ward Eng. Poets III. 281 Repossession of the far and fairy light, the clear aerial melody, of the once revealed and long recluded Hesperides. 1915 M. H. Hewlett Little Iliad 23 The underlying, the recluded heart of the thing stood nakedly before his ingenuous, but quite candid, gaze. 2002 S. Carrington Avalon i. 25 There was a recluded elven settlement not far from here. Perfect for privacy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.?1440 |
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