1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts (1658), 361. To shew the food of tame and enclosed Lions.
1648. Gage, West Ind., xviii. (1655), 122. Which I shall observe with inclosed Parentheses as I goe along.
1797. Bewick, Brit. Birds (1847), I. 355. They prefer woody and heathy wastes to inclosed ground.
1848. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., I. 311–2. A region … which contained only three houses and scarcely any inclosed fields.
† b. quasi-sb. ? A sealed letter. Obs. rare–1.
c. 1645. Howell, Lett. (1650), I. xv. 23. Yours of the third of August, came to safe hand in an inclos’d from my brother.
