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concealed, ppl. a.|kənˈsiːld|
[f. conceal + -ed1.]
a. Hidden, disguised, put out of sight, kept secret, etc.: see the verb.
1588Allen Admon. 20 Her vnlawfull longe concealded or fained yssue. 1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. iii. iii. 98 What sayes My conceal'd Lady to our conceal'd Loue? 1595― John v. ii. 139 To diue like Buckets in concealed Welles. 1753W. Melmoth Cicero vi. i. (R.), The most concealed and unfrequented paths of philosophy. 1848Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 210 She had been, during some years, a concealed Roman Catholic. 1858Mrs. 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.
1593Nashe Four Lett. Conf. 43 Still he retaineth (like conceald land) some part of his proud mind in a beggers purse. 1624–32Title 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. 1630R. 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. 1654Fuller Two Serm. 23 Concealed Lands belonged anciently to the King.
c. Applied to indirect lighting in which the fitments are hidden from view.
1930‘E. Queen’ French Powder Myst. iii. 23 The lighting features were all of the ‘concealed’ variety rapidly gaining vogue on the Continent. 1938Encycl. Brit. Bk. of Yr. 127/1 Internally, glass, wood, stone, and metal veneers, in conjunction with concealed lighting, have been developed to a very high degree, and are now accepted as the normal standard of good building practice. 1943G. Greene Ministry of Fear i. vi. 98 Interminable corridors lit by concealed lighting.
Hence conˈcealedly adv., conˈcealedness.
1622Wither Philarete (1633) 713 She that Faire-one is whom I Here have praised concealedly. 1653Gauden Hierasp. 379 Worldly lusts and interests slily creep in, and concealedly work in their hearts. 1670Cotton Espernon ii. vi. 281 [It] began..to appear out of the conceal'dness, and obscurity, where it had..lain hid. |