closeted

as inimprison

as inseclude
as insequestrate

Word Origin & History

late 14c., from Old French closet "small enclosure, private room," diminutive of clos "enclosure," from Latin clausum "closed space, enclosure, confinement," from neuter past participle of claudere "to shut" (see close (v.)). In Matt. vi:6 it renders Latin cubiculum "bedchamber, bedroom," Greek tamieion "chamber, inner chamber, secret room;" thus originally in English "a private room for study or prayer." Modern sense of "small side-room for storage" is first recorded 1610s.

The adjective is from 1680s, "private, secluded;" meaning "secret, unknown" recorded from 1952, first of alcoholism, but by 1970s used principally of homosexuality; the phrase come out of the closet "admit something openly" first recorded 1963, and lent new meanings to the word out.

Example Sentences for closeted

He and Lady Coryston were closeted together for nearly an hour.

General Lebrun was said to be there, closeted with the mayor.

Meantime he went out and was closeted again with Moltke and His Majesty.

Willy Ray was there, and had been for hours closeted with the sheriff's assistant.

For already her ladyship was closeted with Rotherby in her boudoir.

But it was a year and a day since he had been closeted with him.

He resumed his intimacy with Cole, and they were often closeted together.

It had been daylight when I retired, and Captain Rudstone was then closeted with the factor.

Sophia was next called in, while Morris was closeted with her young ladies.

I had closeted him; and now I had time to consider the situation.

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