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verb

Enclose v. t. To inclose. See Inclose.

Inclose v. t. (past & past part. inclosed; pres. part. inclosing) (Written also enclose)

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!"

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."

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

To put into harness; to harness. (Obs.) "They went to coach and their horse inclose."

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Etymology of 'Enclose'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Enclose" Quotes from Famous Books

... king who built the sewers built also a strong fortress on the top of one of the hills. This fortress was called the Capitol, and the hill was called the Capitoline Hill. He also ordered that a wall should be built all around the seven hills to enclose the city, but it was not finished ...

— Rafael in Italy - A Geographical Reader • Etta Blaisdell McDonald

... Write your letter, by all means, and I will enclose a few lines in it. And,"—suddenly, in a much more cheerful tone of voice, as an idea seemed to suggest itself to him—"I'll tell you what I'll do, Dick, I'll run over to Portsmouth with you, and stay ...

— A Middy of the King - A Romance of the Old British Navy • Harry Collingwood

... pleasing sight, Each Christian bosom glowed with full delight; But deep contrition soon their joy suppressed, And holy sorrow saddened every breast; Scarce dare their eyes the city walls survey, Where clothed in flesh their dear Redeemer lay, Whose sacred earth did once their Lord enclose, And when triumphant ...

— Palestine or the Holy Land - From the Earliest Period to the Present Time • Michael Russell

... well be in the moon. I shall enclose Constantinople before you could arrange with the Jews, and have money enough to buy a feather for your cap. If this were less true, comes then the argument: How can you dispose of the properties in hand, and quiet the gossips in the Gabour's palace? 'Where are your ...

— The Prince of India - Or - Why Constantinople Fell - Volume 2 • Lew. Wallace

... which makes property a DELIGHTFUL THING, as some philosopher (I know not who) has said, is the power to dispose at will, not only of one's own goods, but of their specific nature; to use them at pleasure; to confine and enclose them; to excommunicate mankind, as M. Pierre Leroux says; in short, to make such use of them as passion, interest, or even caprice, may suggest. What is the possession of money, a share in an agricultural or industrial enterprise, or a government-bond ...

— What is Property? - An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government • P. J. Proudhon

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