Meanings
present singular third person becloses · participle present beclosing · participle past beclosed · past beclosed
- transitiveTo shut up or in; enclose; enwrap.
He is our clothing that for love, wraps us, embraces us, and all becloses us, for tender love that he may never leave us, being to us all thing that is good as to my understanding.
2003, Julian (of Norwich), Julia Bolton Holloway, Showing of love1 more example
It is our sensuality in which he is enclosed, and our kyndely [natural] substance is beclosed [beclosed, wrapped up] in Jesus Christ, with the blessed soul of Christ sitting in rest in the godhead.
1994, Edward Peter Nolan, Cry out and write: a feminine poetics of revelation - transitiveTo imprison.
Origin
- Old Englishbeclȳsan“to close, shut what is open, conclude, put an end to, shut up in a place, enclose, confine, imprison, shut out, exclude”
- Middle Englishbeclosen
- Englishbeclose
From Middle English beclosen, biclosen, alteration (due to Middle English closen) of earlier biclusen, from Old English beclȳsan (“to close, shut what is open, conclude, put an end to, shut up in a place, enclose, confine, imprison, shut out, exclude”), equivalent to be- + close. See also cluse.
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