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Quotation dates: 1420, 1543-1590, 1641-1660
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Closure, n. Also: closur, clossure, clousure, closuer, closor. [e.m.E. and ME. (Chaucer), OF. closure.]
1. An enclosing thing; an enclosure. (Cf. Closour.) Also attrib. with ȝett. c1420 Wynt. i. 613.
Lyk it was That God walde noucht at thai sulde pas Out off that closure 1543 Black Friars Perth 229.
Quhilkis with thair complicis and servands, … came to thair said place, … and also brak thair clossure yett 1543 Ib. 230.
Our said oratouris … clousure yett 1558 Misc. Wodrow Soc. 145.
As gyff the closure of the wyne-ȝarde be castin doun a1568 Bannatyne MS 74 b.
Quhen faid sall thy fegur, And clay sal be thy closure 1590 Edinb. B. Rec. V. 23.
[To] grant na licence … to exerce ony gaim or pastyme within the yaird or closure of the said schole
2. Closing, conclusion. 1641 Acts (1817) V. 519/1.
Befor the closuer of every parliament the day of the next subsequent parliament salbe condiscended vpon 1657 Nicoll Diary 200.
Eftir the closor of this Parliament, quhich endit upon the 26 of Iunij last 1660 Aberd. B. Rec. IV. 192.
To goe about the prosecutione of the said mater … to the finall closur theroff
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