Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of inclosing on all sides.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Act of inclosing on all sides.
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- noun The act of
enclosing on all sides.
Etymologies
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Latin circumcludere, circumclusum, to inclose.
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Examples
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_ This drinke is of a most hot nature, as being compos’d of Spices, and if it once scale the sconce, and enter within the circumclusion of the _Perricranion_, it doth much accelerate nature, by whose forcible atraction and operation, the drinker (by way of distribution) is easily enabled to afford blowcs to his brother.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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