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Webster 1913 Edition


Reclude

Re-clude′

(rē̍-klūd′)
,
Verb.
T.
[L.
recludere
to unclose, open; pref.
re-
again, back, un- +
claudere
to shut.]
To open; to unclose.
[R.]
Harvey.

Webster 1828 Edition


Reclude

RECLU'DE

,
Verb.
T.
[L. recludo; re and claudo, cludo.] To open. [Little used.]

Definition 2024


reclude

reclude

English

Verb

reclude (third-person singular simple present recludes, present participle recluding, simple past and past participle recluded)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To open; to unblock. [15th-19th c.]
  2. (transitive or reflexive) To close off, to confine. [from 16th c.]
  3. (transitive or reflexive) To seclude, cut off from the community, the world etc. [from 16th c.]
    • 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:
      And, surely, no woman who knows that of herself can be rightly censured for not recluding herself from the world: it is only women without the power to love who have no right to provoke men's love.

Italian

Verb

reclude

  1. third-person singular present indicative of recludere

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Latin

Verb

rēclūde

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of rēclūdō