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Inclosure   /ɪnklˈoʊʒər/   Listen
noun
Inclosure  n.  (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."
3.
That which incloses; a barrier or fence. "Breaking our inclosures every morn."





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"Inclosure" Quotes from Famous Books



... I quite smiled outright, I was given the grace to see myself in the likeness of a leering stranger trespassing in some cherished inclosure: a garden where the gentlest guests must always be intruders, and only the owner should come. The best of us profane it readily, leaving the coarse prints of our heels upon its paths, mauling and man-handling the fairy ...
— The Guest of Quesnay • Booth Tarkington
... Winter-prisoned Dames, Pent in th' inclosure of the walled townes, Welcoms the Spring, Vsher to Somer flames, Making their Pastimes in the flowrie downes, Whose beauteous Arras[2] wrought in natures frames, Through eyes admire, the hart with wonder crownes, ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, v. 7 - England's Naval Exploits Against Spain • Richard Hakluyt
... the battle. The camp fires of the preceding night were moldering away, for it was a warm summer morning; the intrenchments were guarded, and the tents, now nearly empty, stood extended in long rows within the inclosure. In the midst of them was the magnificent pavilion of the general, furnished with every imaginable article of luxury and splendor. Attendants were busy here and there, some rearranging what had been left in disorder by the call to arms by which the troops had been ...
— History of Julius Caesar • Jacob Abbott
... in that chambers patient alablaster inclosure (which her melting eies long sithence had softned) were curiously ingraued. Diamondes thought themselues Dii mundi, if they might but carue hir name on the naked glasse. With them on it did he anatomize these bodie-wanting mots, Dulce puella malum est. Quod fugit ipse sequor. ...
— The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton - With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse • Thomas Nash
... animals were now let in. They bounded around the inclosure, they leaped against the barrier, and in their rage assailed one another. It was ...
— The Martyr of the Catacombs - A Tale of Ancient Rome • Anonymous


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