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Inclosed

Inclose \In*close"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inclosed; p. pr. & vb. n. Inclosing.] [See Enclose, and cf. Include.]

  1. To surround; to shut in; to confine on all sides; to include; to shut up; to encompass; as, to inclose a fort or an army with troops; to inclose a town with walls.

    How many evils have inclosed me round!
    --Milton.

  2. To put within a case, envelope, or the like; to fold (a thing) within another or into the same parcel; as, to inclose a letter or a bank note.

    The inclosed copies of the treaty.
    --Sir W. Temple.

  3. To separate from common grounds by a fence; as, to inclose lands.
    --Blackstone.

  4. To put into harness; to harness. [Obs.]

    They went to coach and their horse inclose.
    --Chapman.

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inclosed
  1. 1 Surrounded. 2 Contained within something. alt. 1 Surrounded. 2 Contained within something. v

  2. (en-past of: inclose)

Usage examples of "inclosed".

Franks's arrival, I have inclosed my private letters for Virginia under cover to our delegation in general, which otherwise I would have taken the liberty to inclose particularly to you, as best acquainted with the situation of the persons to whom they are addressed.

The observations inclosed, tho' printed, have been put into confidential hands only.

I believe that the statement inclosed has secured a decision against his proposition.

The commission you inclosed for Maria is executed, and the things are in the care of Mr.

It is the duplicate of one with the same address which I inclosed last week to mr.

They have good Cabins, inclosed fields, large herds of cattle and hogs, spin and weave their own clothes of cotton, have smiths and other of the most necessary tradesmen, write and read, are on the increase in numbers, and a branch of the Cherokees is now instituting a regular representative government.

That Caesar could be easily inclosed by the two armies, through the narrowness of the country, and prevented from obtaining supplies: unless he did so, that he and upward of thirty cohorts, and a great number of senators and Roman knights, would be in extreme danger.

And as the country was mountainous, and the valleys narrow at the bottom, he inclosed them with piles sunk in the ground, and heaped up mold against them to keep in the water.

But the extent of the lines, and the incessant labor for so many days, because he had inclosed a circuit of seventeen miles with his works, did not allow time to finish them.

But the valor of our men prevailed, and having cut down the barricade, they first forced the greater camp, and after that the fort which was inclosed within it.

The soldiers of the left wing, perceiving from the rampart that Pompey was advancing, and their own friends fleeing, being afraid that they should be inclosed between the two ramparts, as they had an enemy both within and without, strove to secure their retreat the same way they came.

In the centre of the great circus ring thus formed, was a torn and ragged upheaval a hundred feet high, all snowed over with a sulphur crust of many and many a brilliant and beautiful color, and the ditch inclosed this like the moat of a castle, or surrounded it as a little river does a little island, if the simile is better.

It is to be almost inclosed by massive stone piers, one of which will extend into the sea over three thousand feet in a straight line.

It is inclosed in a sort of little temple of yellow and white stone, of fanciful design.

I climbed the stairway in the church which brings one to the top of the small inclosed pinnacle of rock, and looked upon the place where the true cross once stood, with a far more absorbing interest than I had ever felt in any thing earthly before.