treclude

t. [Lat. recludo, from re- =back, and claudo =to shut.] To open, to unclose. "The ingredients absorb the intestinal superfluities, reclude oppilations, and mundify the blood."- Harvey : On Consumption. rě-clûse, a . & s. [Fr. reclus (fem. recluse ), pa. par. of O. Fr. recloire ; Low Lat. recludo =to shut up; Sp. recluso ; Ital. richiuso.] A. As adj.: Living shut up or retired from the world; solitary, sequestered, retired from public life or notice. "Nor these alone prefer a life recluse, Who seek retirement for its proper use." Cowper : Retirement , 170. B. As substantive : 1. One who lives shut up apart from the world; one who spends his life in retirement or seclusion, away from intercourse with the world, as a hermit or monk. ""Yes,' buoyantly exclaimed The pale Recluse ." Words worth: Excursion, v. 2. Specif .: A religious devotee who lives in a single cell usually attached to a monastery. *3. A retreat, a hermitage. "These found them Refuges in Caves and Holes of Rocks; and in these Recluses were they comforted."Bra i thwaite: Penitent Pilgrims (Reprint 1357), p. 135.