† reˈclude, v. Obs.
[ad. L. reclūdĕre to open; later, to shut up: see re- and close v.]
1. trans. To open (a gate, etc.).
| c 1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 1069 Hem, softe enclude, And towarde nyght her yatis thou reclude. 1665 G. Harvey Disc. Plague xiv. (1673) 145 The Ingredients..reclude oppilations, mundifie the blood. |
2. a. To shut up (a thing or person); to close.
| 1576 Baker Jewell of Health 169 Let it be recluded in the pitte of a penitent breast. 1578 Banister Hist. Man i. 22 Neyther doth Os sacrum obscurely reclude, but playne and largely open and discouer the passages. 1651 Raleigh's Ghost 243 The meanes for the wicked to their salvation should be recluded and shut up. [a 1843 Southey Comm.-pl. Bk. (1850) III. 401 A King and Queen recluded.] |
b. To shut (a person) off from a thing. Also refl.
| 1598 in Archpriest Controv. (Camden) I. 51 You are not recluded from the world to disquiett the world. 1600 W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 87 The party..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 Beerbohm Zuleika Dobson ii. 22 No woman who knows that of herself can be rightly censured for not recluding herself from the world. |
3. To shut out (a thing). rare—1.
| 1634 W. Tirwhyt tr. Balzac's Lett. (vol. I.) 359 To small purpose had they recluded the power of strangers. |
Hence † reˈcluded ppl. a. Obs.—1
| 1597 A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 15 b/2 The recluded Parrates Bille. |