(verb) : dis-clūdo, si, sum, 3, claudo (rare but classical; already obsolete in the time of Macrobius, v. Macr. S. 6, 4).
* To shut up separately, to keep separate; orig. belonging to household lang.: dispares disclusos habere pisces,Varr. R. R. 3, 17, 4.
* With the notion of dis predominant, to keep apart, to separate, divide: pares cum paribus jungi res, et discludere mundum,Lucr. 5, 438; so of the act of creation, imitated by Vergil: discludere Nerea ponto,to separate, cut off,Verg. E. 6, 35: paludibus mons erat ab reliquis disclusus,Varr. L. L. 5, § 43 Müll.; cf.: mons Cevenna, qui Arvernos ab Helviis discludit,Caes. B. G. 7, 8, 2: ossibus ac nervis disclusis,Lucr. 3, 171; cf.: turres (with disturbare domos),id. 6, 240: quibus (sc. tignis) disclusis atque in contrariam partem revinctis,kept asunder, kept at the proper distance apart,Caes. B. G. 4, 17, 7: ut restis, ad ingluviem adstricta, spiritus officia discluderet,i. e. might prevent, choke off,App. M. 1, p. 109, 27.
* Of abstr. objects: Plato iram et cupiditatem locis disclusit: iram in pectore, cupiditatem subter praecordia locavit,Cic. Tusc. 1, 10, 20: quae semotae a mente et disclusae,id. ib. 1, 33, 80: morsus roboris,to part, to open,Verg. A. 12, 782.

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