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Webster 1913 Edition

Inclosure

In-clo′sure

(?; 135)
,
Noun.
[See
Inclose
,
Enclosure
.]
[Written also
enclosure
.]
1.
The act of inclosing; the state of being inclosed, shut up, or encompassed; the separation of land from common ground by a fence.
2.
That which is inclosed or placed within something; a thing contained; a space inclosed or fenced up.
Within the
inclosure
there was a great store of houses.
Hakluyt.
3.
That which incloses; a barrier or fence.
Breaking our
inclosures
every morn.
W. Browne.

Webster 1828 Edition

Inclosure

INCLO'SURE

,
Noun.
The act of inclosing.
1.
The separation of land from common ground into distinct possessions by a fence.
2.
The appropriation of things common.
3.
State of being inclosed, shut up or encompasses.
4.
A space inclosed or fenced; a space comprehended within certain limits.
5.
Ground inclosed or separated from common land.
6.
That which is inclosed or contained in an envelop, as a paper.

Definition 2024

inclosure

inclosure

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Noun

inclosure ‎(countable and uncountable, plural inclosures)

  1. (now uncommon) Alternative spelling of enclosure
    • 1918, Edgar Rice Burrows, The People that Time Forgot, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008:
      The only opening into the inclosure was through a small aperture.

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