reclure

From Latin recludere.

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.klyʁ/
• Rhymes: -yʁ

reclure (defective) (past participle reclus)

1. to withdraw into a place, so as to have no contact with others
   • 1875, Louis-Claude Pavy, Louis-Antoine-Augustin Pavy, chapter 5, in https://ia801309.us.archive.org/23/items/lesrecluseries00pavy/lesrecluseries00pavy.pdf, pages 99-100:

     Ceux qui seront reclus pour un temps n'auront point voix active au chapitre; et ceux qui se feront reclure à toujours n'auront ni voix active, ni voix passive.

     Those who will be reclusive for a time will not have an active voice in the chapter; & those who will cloister themselves forever will have neither an active, nor a passive voice.

• Only used in the infinitive & the past participle.

• “reclure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.