ppl. a. [f. CLOSE v.] Made close, shut. Also with advs. as closed in, closed out.
Closed syllable, one ending in a consonant, as the first and third of L. fes-tī-nat.
c. 1205. Lay., 12823. Heo weoren in castle oðer y burhȝe iclused uaste.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 83. Closyd yn, inclusus. Ibid., Closyd owte, exclusus, seclusus.
1481. Caxton, Reynard, v. (Arb.), 10. A cloysterer or a closyd recluse.
1526. Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 254 b. Closed and festred woundes.
1832. Nat. Philos., II. Electro-Magnet., xi. § 232 (Usef. Knowl. Soc.). When an electric current, after traversing a certain line … returns upon itself … it has been denominated a closed circuit.
1881. S. J. Whitmee, in Trans. Victoria Instit., 20. Many of the syllables are closed.
1882. Minchin, Unipl. Kinemat., 140. The curve is closed, so that the extreme points A and B coincide.
1887. M. H. Peacock, in Pall Mall Gaz., 1 Nov., 2/2. In many cases a boy is sent for a closed (or partially closed) exhibition, who might get an open scholarship.
