ppl. a. [f. CLOAK + -ED.] Dressed or wrapt up in a cloak; fig. disguised, concealed, secret.

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a. 1500.  [see CLOAKEDLY].

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1509.  Barclay, Shyp of Folys (1570), 129. Your cloked errour.

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1548.  Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Mark xiv. 93. He folowed Jesus aloofe, and was now a cloked disciple.

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1622.  Malynes, Anc. Law-Merch., 350. Here is a cloaked lending vnder the colour of buying.

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1881.  G. A. Henty, Cornet of Horse, xxiv. 246. A cloaked stranger was shown into the room.

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  Hence † Cloakedly adv., in outward show, apparently; disguisedly, in a secret or underhand way.

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a. 1500.  Songs & Carols 15th C. (1847), 66 (Mätz.). Clokydly withowt they obey very mych, And inwerdly the most mayster wer no brych.

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1551.  Edw. VI., Jrnl., in Lit. Rem. (1857–8), II. 340. Th’ emperour … did clokedly begine warre.

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1565.  Card. Allen, in Fulke’s Confut. Doct. Purgatory (1577), 404. Yet they dare not but clokedly reprehende them.

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