Middle English Dictionary Entry
clausūre n.
Entry Info
| Forms | clausūre n. Also clauser. |
| Etymology | L clausūra |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) An enclosed place, an enclosure; a cloister; without ~, outside (one's) dwelling; (b) an enclosing fence, wall, or barrier; coll. fencing, walls.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)248b/a : Intra sceptum templi, That is to menynge Wiþinne þe closinge or þe clausure of þe temple.
- (1451) Capgr.St.Gilb.(Add 36704)83/28 : All þese ordeyned he..þat is to seyn, swech houses as long to religion, with a cloystir, or a clauser, wallid abowte.
- a1500 Mirror Salv.(Beeleigh)p.31 : Trow nat yat Gabriel fand hire [the Virgin] without clausure [L sine clausura].
b
- c1460 Chaucer CT.Pars.(SeldArch B.14)I.870 : He somtyme is cause of al the damages that bestes don in the felde, that breken the hegges or the clausure.
- (a1464) Capgr.Chron.(Cmb Gg.4.12)237 : Alle clausures of wodis thei distroyed.
- (1473) Stonor1.135 : He to repayre al maner tynges þat ought to be repayred, as well in housyng as in clausure.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- a1500 Hisp.SSecr.(Rwl C.83)4/26 : Vse sum fumigacions. Let brenne..incense, juniper, gale or levis of þe baytre. And se þat þu receiue þe fume with þi nose, for þis openith þe clausuris [Lambeth: closynges; Abbrev.: sparring; Ashmole: closes; L clausuram] of þi brayne.
Note: New sense.
Note: See DMLBS clausura n., sense 2.(e) = "closure, barrier, blockage, damming (of passage, watercourse, or sim.)" Bacon IX, 130: "ille suffumigationes aperiunt cerebri clausuram."
Note: Gloss: (c) physiol. an obstruction of the flow of bodily humors through the brain.--per MLL
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. clausure.