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cloaked, ppl. a.|kləʊkt|
[f. cloak + -ed.]
Dressed or wrapt up in a cloak; fig. disguised, concealed, secret.
a1500[see cloakedly]. 1509Barclay Shyp Folys (1570) 129 Your cloked errour. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Mark xiv. 93 He folowed Jesus aloofe, and was now a cloked disciple. 1622Malynes Anc. Law-Merch. 350 Here is a cloaked lending vnder the colour of buying. 1888G. A. Henty Cornet of Horse xxiv. 246 A cloaked stranger was shown into the room.
Hence † ˈcloakedly adv., in outward show, apparently; disguisedly, in a secret or underhand way.
a1500Songs & Carols 15th C. (1847) 66 (Mätz.) Clokydly withowt they obey very mych, And inwerdly the most mayster wer no brych. 1551Edw. VI. Jrnl. in Lit. Rem. (1857–8) II. 340 Th' emperour..did clokedly begine warre. 1565Card. Allen in Fulke's Confut. Doct. Purgatory (1577) 404 Yet they dare not but clokedly reprehende them. |