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[en-kloh-zher]

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noun

something that encloses, as a fence or wall.

something that is enclosed, as a paper sent in a letter.

the separation and appropriation of land by means of a fence.

a tract of land surrounded by a fence.

an act or instance of enclosing.

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the state of being enclosed.

Roman Catholic Church. the part of a monastery or convent canonically separated or restricted as the living quarters of the religious, from which a person may leave only with special permission or gain entrance to by special dispensation.

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Also, inclosure.

Origin:
1530–40; enclose + -ure; compare Anglo-French enclosure

Related forms

non·en·clo·sure, noun

pre·en·clo·sure, noun

sem·i·en·clo·sure, noun

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There is something to be said for the confining box of the proscenium stage and the sense of enclosure it can create.

Animal-rights activists have deplored this enclosure and last month hounded the city's chief monkey-trapper into quitting.

Ask students what zookeepers must consider when building an enclosure for tigers.

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There is something to be said for the confining box of the proscenium stage and the sense of enclosure it can create.

Animal-rights activists have deplored this enclosure and last month hounded the city's chief monkey-trapper into quitting.

Ask students what zookeepers must consider when building an enclosure for tigers.

Indeed this is a modern version of the enclosure movement.

The researchers started by training the bonobos that they would find kiwis on one side of their enclosure and apples on the other.

Moving into this enclosure filled with canine scents keeps things interesting for the lions.

Axiotron installed a touchscreen and slightly moved around the computer's guts to fit in a custom enclosure.

He is not the first architect to experiment with degrees of openness and enclosure in a stadium.

It has fenced a large enclosure for breeding desert bighorn sheep.

So zookeepers tossed one end of a thick rope into the gorilla's enclosure and handed the other end to a team of ten men.

They gave the rats plenty of time to learn the first enclosure.

Both males and females strode about the enclosure picking up fruit and mingling with their friends.

Seven-foot-long panels of mosquito netting hang from horizontal bamboo rods to create a sense of intimate enclosure.

The same desire for enclosure that fuels gated developments is at the heart of the success of golf courses.

Lying in the enclosure of a magnetic resonance imaging machine, the subjects in the experiment had been told not to laugh aloud.

They put a specially reinforced jumbo-sized mirror into the elephants' enclosure.

Old instincts kicked in when a small antelope strayed into the older pair's enclosure and they pounced.

Typically, a polar bear enclosure is only one millionth the size of its minimum home range.

For now, according to zookeepers, the young ferret is relatively shy and enjoys playing her sister in her enclosure.

Drees's first step was to heighten the garden's sense of enclosure.

After a few seconds, the animal begins to run frantically around the bottom of the enclosure.

Mayer as he fell on to a bench inside the magistrate's enclosure.

Taipei's optimistic zoo has been busy building a panda enclosure.

As she walked the site, she trailed her hands along the white and beige limestone blocks of the temple's enclosure.

Frequently, the fossils are shielded from the weather and other elements by some kind of building or enclosure.

In the corridor by his enclosure are posters and pictures from children.

When liting matches in such a wooded enclosure the risk of an implosion is almost guaranteed.

The cat ran into the enclosure and immediately checked us out.

Hopefully they'll have sense enough to have a full enclosure so you won't get wet in the rain.

While they never actually go into the enclosure with the bears for safety reasons, they are able to interact with them.

In effect, the commodification of water leads to the enclosure of the water commons.

Mad was in force back at the boxing ring, where a now rested king whipped toward me on release from its wooden enclosure.

The turtle will be kept in an enclosure on an island in the lake for the next few weeks until it heals.

The enclosure of the commons for the benefit of few has to be balanced by something.

The lack of an enclosure has no effect on the basic principles.

The centerpiece of the complex, an enclosure the size of a football field housing the marble tomb, is already completed.

He built an underwater enclosure for his camera and hooked it up to a video feed.

The room areas outside the enclosure are heated by a wood-burning stove with the back-up support of electric units.

The number of visitors outside an enclosure had no effect on the behaviour of the animals within.

The walled enclosure also contains an all-weather tennis court and there is a heated swimming pool on the other side of the house.

The two other lions have been moved to a small indoor enclosure at the zoo.

With that, a stage hand crawled through some fake fog and pulled a rip cord that sent an enclosure of white balloons skyward.

Instead, the instrument was mounted on a horizontal enclosure without a back or sides.

But rather than building a factory, he would have had the electronics fabbed by one company and the enclosure made by another.

One at a time, the cheetah is taken from its enclosure on a leash as four people stand by.

She tended to him day and night for three months living in a tent within his enclosure.

The black bears would have to overwinter in the cabin in their enclosure.

On the fourth level, square pillars once supported a tiled, wooden roof of a grand hall leading to the inner enclosure.

These dogs were kept in an outdoor enclosure and it was dead of winter.

Vaulting the enclosure fence, the rescuer narrowly escaped what could have been a savage attack.

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World English Dictionary

enclosure or inclosure (ɪnˈkləʊʒə)

—n
1.	the act of enclosing or state of being enclosed
2.	a region or area enclosed by or as if by a fence
3.	a. the act of appropriating land, esp common land, by putting a hedge or other barrier around it
	b. history such acts as were carried out at various periods in England, esp between the 12th and 14th centuries and finally in the 18th and 19th centuries
4.	a fence, wall, etc, that serves to enclose
5.	something, esp a supporting document, enclosed within an envelope or wrapper, esp together with a letter
6.	(Brit) a section of a sports ground, racecourse, etc, allotted to certain spectators

inclosure or inclosure

—n

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Word Origin & History

enclosure

1510s, from enclose + -ure.

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"Prometheus is action. Hamlet is hesitation. In Prometheus the obstacle is exterior; in Hamlet it is interior. In Prometheus the will is securely nailed down by nails of brass and cannot get loose; besides, it has by its side two watchers—Force and Power. In Hamlet the will is more tied down yet; it is bound by previous meditation—the endless chain of the undecided. Try to get out of yourself if you can! What a Gordian knot is our reverie. Slavery from within, that is slavery indeed. Scale this enclosure, "to dream!" escape, if you can, from this prison, "to love!" The only dungeon is that which walls conscience in. Prometheus, in order to be free, has but a bronze collar to break and a god to conquer; Hamlet must break and conquer himself. Prometheus can raise himself upright, if he only lifts a mountain; to raise himself up, Hamlet must lift his own thoughts. If Prometheus plucks the vulture from his breast, all is said; Hamlet must tear Hamlet from his breast. Prometheus and Hamlet are two naked livers; from one runs blood, from the other doubt."

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