Meanings
present singular third person intercludes · participle present intercluding · participle past intercluded · past intercluded
- transitiveTo cut off or shut off (something) from a course or place, by something intervening; to intercept, to interrupt.
[W]hen the receiver FF is emptied of air, the ſtop-cock B is to be ſhut, that ſo all paſſage of external air into the receiver may be intercluded, […]
1682, Robert Boyle, “A Continuation of New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, Touching the Spring and Weight of the Air, and Their Effects. The Second Part. […]”, in The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle. […], volume IV, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], published 1744, →OCLC, page 103, column 11 more example
Next morning the combined forces appeared again in order of battle, in front of the Athenian works, and by their position intercluded the communication of the Athenian general with his fort of Labdalum, and with his northern lines.
1784-1810, William Mitford, The History of Greece
Origin
- Latininterclūdō
- Englishinterclude
From Latin interclūdō; inter (“between”) + claudō (“to shut”). See close.
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