ppl. a. [f. CONCEAL + -ED1.] Hidden, disguised, put out of sight, kept secret, etc.: see the verb.
1588. Allen, Admon., 20. Her vnlawfull longe concealded or fained yssue.
1592. Shaks., Rom. & Jul., III. iii. 98. What sayes My conceal’d Lady to our conceal’d Loue? Ibid. (1595), John, V. ii. 139. To diue like Buckets in concealed Welles.
1753. W. Melmoth, Cicero, VI. i. (R.). The most concealed and unfrequented paths of philosophy.
1848. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., I. 210. She had been, during some years, a concealed Roman Catholic.
1858. Mrs. Oliphant, Laird of Norlaw, I. 272. A little room boasting ‘a concealed bed,’ that is to say, a recess shut in by folding-doors, and just large enough to contain a bedstead.
† b. Concealed land: land privily held from the king by a person having no title thereto: used esp. of lands that had been monastic property before the Reformation. Obs.
1593. Nashe, Four Lett. Conf., 43. Still he retaineth (like conceald land) some part of his proud mind in a beggers purse.
1624–32. Title to Act 21 Jas. I, c. 2 (Pulton). Concealed Lands shall not be recouered vnlesse it may be proued that the King had title vnto them within 60 yeares.
1630. R. Johnson’s Kingd. & Commonw., 158. That … belongeth to the [French] Crowne … for want of heires males … or … for want of such as can make just claime, much like our concealed Lands in England.
1654. Fuller, Two Serm., 23. Concealed Lands belonged anciently to the King.
Hence Concealedly adv., Concealedness.
1622. Wither, Philarete (1633), 713. She that Faire-one is whom I Here have praised concealedly.
1653. Gauden, Hierasp., 379. Worldly lusts and interests slily creep in, and concealedly work in their hearts.
1670. Cotton, Espernon, II. VI. 281. [It] began … to appear out of the conceal’dness, and obscurity, where it had … lain hid.
