Meaning & use
Reclude
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An archaic verb meaning to open or unclose something.
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The old text describes how the priest would reclude the sealed chamber only once a year.
Antiquarian writers used 'reclude' to mean opening a locked or hidden space.
A note on using this word
From Latin recludere, 'to open,' the same root family as 'seclude' and 'include,' though 'reclude' itself has fallen almost entirely out of use in modern English.
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