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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inclosure \In*clo"sure\ (?; 135), n. [See Inclose, Enclosure.] [Written also enclosure.]
The act of inclosing; the state of being inclosed, shut up, or encompassed; the separation of land from common ground by a fence.
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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. -
That which incloses; a barrier or fence.
Breaking our inclosures every morn.
--W. Browne.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "action of enclosing," from enclose + -ure. Meaning "that which is enclosed" is from 1550s.
Wiktionary
alt. (context countable English) Something enclosed, i.e. inserted into a letter or similar package. n. (context countable English) Something enclosed, i.e. inserted into a letter or similar package.
WordNet
n. artifact consisting of a space that has been enclosed for some purpose
the act of enclosing something inside something else [syn: enclosing, envelopment, inclosure]
a naturally enclosed space [syn: natural enclosure]
something (usually a supporting document) that is enclosed in an envelope with a covering letter [syn: inclosure]
Wikipedia
Enclosure is an album by the Japanese noise musician Merzbow. It is one of two cassettes made with raw material from Ecobondage, Vratya Southward being the second.
It was later included in the Merzbox with bonus tracks.
Enclosure is a 1961 French-Yugoslav drama film directed by Armand Gatti. It was entered into the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival where Gatti won the Silver Prize for Best Director.
Enclosure is the tenth solo album by John Frusciante released on April 8, 2014 (7 April in UK) on Record Collection.
On February 18, 2014, Frusciante made the first song recorded for the album, "Scratch", a song written during The Empyrean sessions, available through his website as a free download.
Enclosure (sometimes inclosure) was the legal process in England during the 18th century of enclosing a number of small landholdings to create one larger farm. Once enclosed, use of the land became restricted to the owner, and it ceased to be common land for communal use. In England and Wales the term is also used for the process that ended the ancient system of arable farming in open fields. Under enclosure, such land is fenced (enclosed) and deeded or entitled to one or more owners. The process of enclosure began to be a widespread feature of the English agricultural landscape during the 16th century. By the 19th century, unenclosed commons had become largely restricted to rough pasture in mountainous areas and to relatively small parts of the lowlands.
Enclosure could be accomplished by buying the ground rights and all common rights to accomplish exclusive rights of use, which increased the value of the land. The other method was by passing laws causing or forcing enclosure, such as Parliamentary enclosure. The latter process of enclosure was sometimes accompanied by force, resistance, and bloodshed, and remains among the most controversial areas of agricultural and economic history in England. Marxist and neo-Marxist historians argue that rich landowners used their control of state processes to appropriate public land for their private benefit.
The process of enclosure created a landless working class that provided the labour required in the new industries developing in the north of England. For example: “In agriculture the years between 1760 and 1820 are the years of wholesale enclosure in which, in village after village, common rights are lost”. Thompson argues that “Enclosure (when all the sophistications are allowed for) was a plain enough case of class robbery.”
W. A. Armstrong, among others, argued that this is perhaps an oversimplification, that the better-off members of the European peasantry encouraged and participated actively in enclosure, seeking to end the perpetual poverty of subsistence farming. “We should be careful not to ascribe to [enclosure] developments that were the consequence of a much broader and more complex process of historical change.” “[T]he impact of eighteenth and nineteenth century enclosure has been grossly exaggerated ...”
Enclosure is considered one of the causes of the British Agricultural Revolution. Enclosed land was under control of the farmer who was free to adopt better farming practices. There was widespread agreement in contemporary accounts that profit making opportunities were better with enclosed land. Following enclosure, crop yields increased while at the same time labour productivity increased enough to create a surplus of labour. The increased labour supply is considered one of the causes of the Industrial Revolution. Marx argued in Capital that enclosure played a constitutive role in the revolutionary transformation of feudalism into capitalism, both by transforming land from a means of subsistence into a means to realize profit on commodity markets (primarily wool in the English case), and by creating the conditions for the modern labour market by transforming small peasant proprietors and serfs into agricultural wage-labourers, whose opportunities to exit the market declined as the common lands were enclosed.
In archaeology, an enclosure is one of the most common types of archaeological site. It is any area of land separated from surrounding land by earthworks, walls or fencing. Such a simple feature is found all over the world and during almost all archaeological periods. They may be few metres across or be large enough to encompass whole cities.
Enclosures served numerous practical purposes including acting to delineate settlement areas, to create defensive positions or to be used as animal pens. They were also widely adopted in ritual and burial practices however and seem to demonstrate a fundamental human desire to make physical boundaries around spaces. Enclosures created from ditches and banks or walling can often be identified in the field through aerial photography or ground survey. Other types leave less permanent records and may only be identified during excavation.
Enclosure is the process of converting common land into private land.
Enclosure or enclosed may also refer to:
- Enclosure, in agriculture, an area of land used for growing crops or keeping livestock: see field
- Enclosure (archaeology), an area of land separated from surrounding land by earthworks, walls, or fencing
- Enclosure, a document or item accompanying a letter
- Enclosed alphanumeric, a block of Unicode symbols
- Enclosed country, landlocked country
- Enclosed oppidum
- Enclosed religious orders, religious orders separated from the external world
- Enclosed rhyme
- Enclosed embryo, seed
- The Enclosure, a 1961 novel by Susan Hill
- Enclosure (film), a 1961 film
An electrical enclosure is a cabinet for electrical or electronic equipment to mount switches, knobs and displays and to prevent electrical shock to equipment users and protect the contents from the environment. The enclosure is the only part of the equipment which is seen by users; in many cases it is designed not only for its utilitarian requirements, but also to be pleasing to the eye. Regulations may dictate the features and performance of enclosures for electrical equipment in hazardous areas, such as petrochemical plants or coal mines. Electronic packaging may place many demands on an enclosure for heat dissipation, radio frequency interference and electrostatic discharge protection, as well as functional, esthetic and commercial constraints.
Usage examples of "enclosure".
Sour clumps of travelers drifted amongst the chuck wagons and the anachronistically styled riding enclosures, looking grim.
As he walked away, he decided not to bring Ascot to the enclosure until just before the race.
Matters were not proceeding well, Rossmere decided when he had managed to bring Ascot into the enclosure.
But there were horses all around the enclosure, and Ascot continued to exhibit his displeasure.
The dry wood split and spread, but held by the iron enclosure of the axhead, could not splinter.
The garage opened slowly and balkily, gears jammed with dust, and Charles parked the tractor in its dark enclosure.
They led him out into a small courtyard and through another door into a larger enclosure, around whose walls were seated a hundred or more Beja warriors.
Pens of pigs and goats, a large enclosure of chickens, ducks and geese in a pond, a few pens of cavies cooing and bubbling.
Behind them was a table with a vertical centerboard studded with instruments registering their measurements and recording devices vomiting paper trails, all inside a wicker enclosure.
The features of the elevated enclosure of San Carlos can be recognized in dim outline, and also those of the Old Town of Coruna around, though scarcely a lamp is shining.
Beyond the columns lay the choir enclosure and the high altar, with pyx and tabernacle, behind which towered a monumental downlighted crucifix.
Their resistance to enclosure of common land, pond drainage and woodland is perhaps better characterized as a struggle for capital resources with the agents of seigneurial estates than as blind conservatism.
I lost my balance on the wet sole, went sprawling, and banged my head so hard on the flybridge enclosure that I knocked myself silly.
Even with the wind blowing and the rain pounding hard against the glass enclosure, Gitana knew that a wolf was there watching her.
And there was the Horntail, at the other end of the enclosure, crouched low over her clutch of eggs, her wings half-furled, her evil, yellow eyes upon him, a monstrous, scaly, black lizard, thrashing her spiked tail, heaving yard-long gouge marks in the hard ground.