occluse

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adjective

shut; closed

OriginLatin occlusus →
Scrabble 11
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Meanings

adjectiveoccluse (not comparable)
  1. not comparableobsoleteshut; closed

    [it] gives their Speech [German] a different Tang from ours: to soften the Occluse Gingival Consonants, by a kind of Mixture or ſoft addition of a Spirital in the ſame Articulation, to a Vocal producing the Vowel

    1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech: An Essay of Inquiry into the Natural Production of Letters: […], London: […] T. N[ewcomb] for J[ohn] Martyn printer to the R[oyal] Society, […], →OCLC

Origin

  1. Latinocclusus
  2. Englishoccluse

From Latin occlusus. See occlude.

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Chicago

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