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Noun [English]

IPA: /ɪnˈkləʊzə/ [UK] Forms: enclosers [plural], incloser [alternative]
Etymology: From enclose + -er. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|enclose|er|id2=agent noun}} enclose + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} encloser (plural enclosers)
  1. (now chiefly historical) Someone who appropriates common land. Tags: historical
    Sense id: en-encloser-en-noun-2fqcGGjK Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun), Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 42 22 36 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun): 41 28 32 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 39 31 30 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 41 30 29
  2. More generally, someone or something that encloses something.
    Sense id: en-encloser-en-noun-~UjE6vpy Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 42 22 36
  3. (programming) An object, procedure, or other portion of code that defines the scope of a variable. Categories (topical): Programming
    Sense id: en-encloser-en-noun-WSPbeJWH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 42 22 36 Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, programming, sciences

Verb [Old French]

Etymology: From the conjugated forms of enclore, such as enclosons, enclosez. Compare modern French fuiter for a similar formation. Head templates: {{head|fro|verb}} encloser Inflection templates: {{fro-conj-er}} Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], encloser [infinitive], avoir enclosé [infinitive, multiword-construction], en enclosant [gerund], gerund of avoir + past participle [gerund, multiword-construction], enclosant [participle, present], enclosé [participle, past], enclos [first-person, indicative, present, singular], encloses [indicative, present, second-person, singular], enclose [indicative, present, singular, third-person], enclosons [first-person, indicative, plural, present], enclosez [indicative, plural, present, second-person], enclosent [indicative, plural, present, third-person], enclosoie [first-person, imperfect, indicative, singular], encloseie [first-person, imperfect, indicative, singular], enclosoe [first-person, imperfect, indicative, singular], encloseve [first-person, imperfect, indicative, singular], enclosoies [imperfect, indicative, second-person, singular], encloseies [imperfect, indicative, second-person, singular], enclosoes [imperfect, indicative, second-person, singular], encloseves [imperfect, indicative, second-person, singular], enclosoit [imperfect, indicative, singular, third-person], encloseit [imperfect, indicative, singular, third-person], enclosot [imperfect, indicative, singular, third-person], encloseve [imperfect, indicative, singular, third-person], enclosiiens [first-person, imperfect, indicative, plural], enclosiens [first-person, imperfect, indicative, plural], enclosiiez [imperfect, indicative, plural, second-person], enclosiez [imperfect, indicative, plural, second-person], enclosoient [imperfect, indicative, plural, third-person], encloseient [imperfect, indicative, plural, third-person], enclosoent [imperfect, indicative, plural, third-person], enclosevent [imperfect, indicative, plural, third-person], enclosai [first-person, indicative, preterite, singular], enclosas [indicative, preterite, second-person, singular], enclosa [indicative, preterite, singular, third-person], enclosames [first-person, indicative, plural, preterite], enclosastes [indicative, plural, preterite, second-person], encloserent [indicative, plural, preterite, third-person], encloserai [first-person, future, indicative, singular], encloseras [future, indicative, second-person, singular], enclosera [future, indicative, singular, third-person], encloserons [first-person, future, indicative, plural], encloseroiz [future, indicative, plural, second-person], enclosereiz [future, indicative, plural, second-person], encloserez [future, indicative, plural, second-person], encloseront [future, indicative, plural, third-person], encloseroie [conditional, first-person, singular], enclosereie [conditional, first-person, singular], encloseroies [conditional, second-person, singular], enclosereies [conditional, second-person, singular], encloseroit [conditional, singular, third-person], enclosereit [conditional, singular, third-person], encloseriiens [conditional, first-person, plural], encloseriens [conditional, first-person, plural], encloseriiez [conditional, plural, second-person], encloseriez [conditional, plural, second-person], encloseroient [conditional, plural, third-person], enclosereient [conditional, plural, third-person], present tense of avoir + past participle [indicative, multiword-construction, perfect, present], imperfect tense of avoir + past participle [indicative, multiword-construction, pluperfect], preterite tense of avoir + past participle [anterior, indicative, multiword-construction, past], future tense of avoir + past participle [future, indicative, multiword-construction, perfect], conditional tense of avoir + past participle [conditional, multiword-construction, perfect], enclos [first-person, present, singular, subjunctive], enclos [present, second-person, singular, subjunctive], enclost [present, singular, subjunctive, third-person], enclosons [first-person, plural, present, subjunctive], enclosez [plural, present, second-person, subjunctive], enclosent [plural, present, subjunctive, third-person], enclosasse [first-person, imperfect, singular, subjunctive], enclosasses [imperfect, second-person, singular, subjunctive], enclosast [imperfect, singular, subjunctive, third-person], enclosissons [first-person, imperfect, plural, subjunctive], enclosissiens [first-person, imperfect, plural, subjunctive], enclosissoiz [imperfect, plural, second-person, subjunctive], enclosissez [imperfect, plural, second-person, subjunctive], enclosissiez [imperfect, plural, second-person, subjunctive], enclosassent [imperfect, plural, subjunctive, third-person], present subjunctive of avoir + past participle [multiword-construction, past, subjunctive], imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle [multiword-construction, pluperfect, subjunctive], enclose [imperative, second-person, singular], enclosons [first-person, imperative, plural], enclosez [imperative, plural, second-person]
  1. to enclose (form, create a boundary)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 94:",
          "text": "It was said, for example, that […] the families of notorious enclosers always died out in three generations […].",
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          "ref": "1991, Victor Magagna, Communities of Grain:",
          "text": "Ironically, it was the encloser who had acted in an unbounded manner by violating the institutional boundaries of local community power.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2001, Braddick & Walters (Eds.), Negotiating Power in Early Modern Society, page 133",
          "text": "In one episode during the long-running dispute over enclosure at Grewelthorpe Moor in Yorkshire, the women of the community followed the encloser on to the moor and, ‘fallinge downe upon their knees, and some of them weepinge for the loss of their Comon, desired…[him] to be good unto them’."
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          "code",
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{
  "etymology_text": "From the conjugated forms of enclore, such as enclosons, enclosez. Compare modern French fuiter for a similar formation.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fro-conj-er",
      "source": "conjugation",
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      "form": "avoir enclosé",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "multiword-construction"
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      "form": "en enclosant",
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        "present"
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      "form": "enclosé",
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    },
    {
      "form": "enclos",
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      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "indicative",
        "present",
        "singular"
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    },
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      "form": "encloses",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
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      "form": "enclosez",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "third-person"
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        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "singular"
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    },
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      "form": "encloseie",
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        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "singular"
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        "indicative",
        "singular"
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      "form": "encloseve",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "singular"
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      "form": "enclosoies",
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        "second-person",
        "singular"
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      "form": "encloseies",
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        "indicative",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
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        "singular"
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        "indicative",
        "second-person",
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      "form": "enclosoit",
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        "indicative",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "encloseit",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
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        "indicative",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "enclosot",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "encloseve",
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        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "plural"
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      "form": "enclosiens",
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        "indicative",
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    {
      "form": "enclosiiez",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosiez",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
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    },
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      "form": "enclosoient",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "encloseient",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
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      "form": "enclosoent",
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        "plural",
        "third-person"
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      "form": "enclosevent",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
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        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "enclosai",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "indicative",
        "preterite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosas",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "preterite",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosa",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "preterite",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "enclosames",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "preterite"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosastes",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "preterite",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "encloserent",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "preterite",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "encloserai",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "future",
        "indicative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "encloseras",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "indicative",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosera",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "indicative",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "encloserons",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "future",
        "indicative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "encloseroiz",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosereiz",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "encloserez",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "encloseront",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "encloseroie",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "first-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosereie",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "first-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "encloseroies",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosereies",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "encloseroit",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosereit",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "encloseriiens",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "first-person",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "encloseriens",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "first-person",
        "plural"
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    },
    {
      "form": "encloseriiez",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "encloseriez",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "encloseroient",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosereient",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "present tense of avoir + past participle",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "multiword-construction",
        "perfect",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "imperfect tense of avoir + past participle",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "multiword-construction",
        "pluperfect"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "preterite tense of avoir + past participle",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "anterior",
        "indicative",
        "multiword-construction",
        "past"
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    {
      "form": "future tense of avoir + past participle",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "perfect"
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    },
    {
      "form": "conditional tense of avoir + past participle",
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    },
    {
      "form": "enclos",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclos",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "second-person",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
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    },
    {
      "form": "enclost",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosons",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "plural",
        "present",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosez",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosent",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present",
        "subjunctive",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosasse",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "imperfect",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosasses",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "second-person",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosast",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosissons",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "imperfect",
        "plural",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosissiens",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "imperfect",
        "plural",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosissoiz",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "plural",
        "second-person",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosissez",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "plural",
        "second-person",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosissiez",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "plural",
        "second-person",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosassent",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "plural",
        "subjunctive",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "present subjunctive of avoir + past participle",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "multiword-construction",
        "past",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "multiword-construction",
        "pluperfect",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclose",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosons",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "imperative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosez",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fro",
        "2": "verb"
      },
      "expansion": "encloser",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "name": "fro-conj-er"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old French",
  "lang_code": "fro",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Old French entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Old French verbs ending in -er",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Old French verbs with weak-a preterite",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
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        "to enclose (form, create a boundary)"
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      "id": "en-encloser-fro-verb-CtbSXsFL",
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    }
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}
{
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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
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        "id2": "agent noun"
      },
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      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From enclose + -er.",
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    {
      "form": "enclosers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "incloser",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 94:",
          "text": "It was said, for example, that […] the families of notorious enclosers always died out in three generations […].",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, Victor Magagna, Communities of Grain:",
          "text": "Ironically, it was the encloser who had acted in an unbounded manner by violating the institutional boundaries of local community power.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Braddick & Walters (Eds.), Negotiating Power in Early Modern Society, page 133",
          "text": "In one episode during the long-running dispute over enclosure at Grewelthorpe Moor in Yorkshire, the women of the community followed the encloser on to the moor and, ‘fallinge downe upon their knees, and some of them weepinge for the loss of their Comon, desired…[him] to be good unto them’."
        }
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        "Someone who appropriates common land."
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          "appropriate"
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          "common land",
          "common land"
        ]
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        "(now chiefly historical) Someone who appropriates common land."
      ],
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        "historical"
      ]
    },
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        "More generally, someone or something that encloses something."
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          "enclose",
          "enclose"
        ]
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [
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      ],
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        "An object, procedure, or other portion of code that defines the scope of a variable."
      ],
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        [
          "programming",
          "programming#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "object",
          "object"
        ],
        [
          "procedure",
          "procedure"
        ],
        [
          "code",
          "code"
        ],
        [
          "scope",
          "scope"
        ]
      ],
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        "(programming) An object, procedure, or other portion of code that defines the scope of a variable."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "programming",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɪnˈkləʊzə/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "encloser"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From the conjugated forms of enclore, such as enclosons, enclosez. Compare modern French fuiter for a similar formation.",
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      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
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      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
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      "form": "encloser",
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      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
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      "form": "avoir enclosé",
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        "infinitive",
        "multiword-construction"
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      "form": "en enclosant",
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      "tags": [
        "gerund"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "gerund of avoir + past participle",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "gerund",
        "multiword-construction"
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      "form": "enclosant",
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      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosé",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclos",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "indicative",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "encloses",
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      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclose",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosons",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosez",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "present",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosent",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
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        "plural",
        "present",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosoie",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "encloseie",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosoe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "encloseve",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosoies",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "encloseies",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosoes",
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        "indicative",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "encloseves",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosoit",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "encloseit",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosot",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "encloseve",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
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        "indicative",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosiiens",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosiens",
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        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosiiez",
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        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosiez",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosoient",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "encloseient",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosoent",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosevent",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosai",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "indicative",
        "preterite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosas",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "preterite",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosa",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "preterite",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosames",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "preterite"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosastes",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "preterite",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "encloserent",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "preterite",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "encloserai",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "future",
        "indicative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "encloseras",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "indicative",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosera",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "future",
        "indicative",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "encloserons",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "future",
        "indicative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "encloseroiz",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosereiz",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "encloserez",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "encloseront",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "encloseroie",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "first-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosereie",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "first-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "encloseroies",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosereies",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "encloseroit",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosereit",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "encloseriiens",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "first-person",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "encloseriens",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "first-person",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "encloseriiez",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "encloseriez",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "encloseroient",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosereient",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "present tense of avoir + past participle",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "multiword-construction",
        "perfect",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "imperfect tense of avoir + past participle",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "multiword-construction",
        "pluperfect"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "preterite tense of avoir + past participle",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "anterior",
        "indicative",
        "multiword-construction",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "future tense of avoir + past participle",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future",
        "indicative",
        "multiword-construction",
        "perfect"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "conditional tense of avoir + past participle",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "multiword-construction",
        "perfect"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclos",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclos",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclost",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosons",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "plural",
        "present",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosez",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosent",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "plural",
        "present",
        "subjunctive",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosasse",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "imperfect",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosasses",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "second-person",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosast",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "singular",
        "subjunctive",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosissons",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "first-person",
        "imperfect",
        "plural",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosissiens",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "first-person",
        "imperfect",
        "plural",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosissoiz",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "plural",
        "second-person",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosissez",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "imperfect",
        "plural",
        "second-person",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosissiez",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "plural",
        "second-person",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosassent",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfect",
        "plural",
        "subjunctive",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "present subjunctive of avoir + past participle",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "multiword-construction",
        "past",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "multiword-construction",
        "pluperfect",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclose",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosons",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "imperative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enclosez",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fro",
        "2": "verb"
      },
      "expansion": "encloser",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "name": "fro-conj-er"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old French",
  "lang_code": "fro",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Old French entries with incorrect language header",
        "Old French first group verbs",
        "Old French lemmas",
        "Old French verbs",
        "Old French verbs ending in -er",
        "Old French verbs with weak-a preterite",
        "Pages with 2 entries",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to enclose (form, create a boundary)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "enclose",
          "enclose"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "encloser"
}

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