Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Closing or shutting up or in; occludent: as, a claudent muscle (an occlusor); the eyelids are claudent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Shutting; confining; drawing together.
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- adjective
Shutting ;confining ; drawing together.
Etymologies
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Latin claudens, present participle of claudere ("to shut").
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jmjarmstrong commented on the word claudent
JM is shutting down and mutters 'I, Claudent'.
February 14, 2011