transitive. To set aside, separate. To seclude (a person, thing, or place) from general access or intercourse; to keep apart from society. Now rare…

In wider sense: To remove or guard from public view; to withdraw from opportunities of social intercourse. Often reflexive, to live in retirement or…

To consign to a position of obscurity, inaccessibility, or inaction; often reflexive and in passive.

transitive. In later use chiefly reflexive. To cut (a person) off from the world, society, etc.; to seclude from. Now rare.