ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.]
1. Shut up in, or as in, a closet; kept in a closet; secret, hidden; private, retired.
1684. Charnock, Attrib. God (1834), I. 536. The thoughts are the most closeted acts of man.
1763. Mrs. Brooke, Lady J. Mandeville (1782), I. 141. Closeted moralists, strangers to the human heart.
1883. E. P. Roe, in Harper’s Mag., Dec., 51/1. A household that … possessed no closeted skeleton.
2. [f. CLOSET sb.] Furnished with closets.
1885. Jrnl. Science, July, 389. The Sewage of an unclosetted town … as that of a thoroughly closetted town.
