Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To open; unclose.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To open; to unclose.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive, archaic To open again; to
reopen . - verb transitive To
include once again something that wasexcluded (a variation of "reinclude ").
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Latin recludere to unclose, open; prefix re- again, back, un- + claudere to shut.
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Examples
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i procul, o Doryla, rivumque reclude canali et sine iam dudum sitientes irriget hortos 'vix ea finierant, senior cum talia Thyrsis,
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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To j:) reclude the stragglers from intoxicating themselves in the numerous houses where wine was sold, they were kept out in the cold and heavy rain of a very severe night.
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