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concealment|kənˈsiːlmənt|
Also 4 concelement, (5 councelement), 6 conceylement.
[a. OF. concelement, f. concéler to hide: see -ment.]
1. The concealing or keeping secret (of any information). In Law, The intentional suppression of truth or fact known, to the injury or prejudice of another; concealment of birth: see quot. 1874.
[1292Britton i. ii. §5 Et si le Corouner..eyt suspecioun de concelement de la verité.] c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 297 Þorgh fals concelement William did his wille. 1479in Eng. Gilds (1870) 416, I shall..do no councelement of the kynges rightes. c1521Cdl. Wolsey in Ellis Orig. Lett. i. 64 I. 179 Committed to the Towre..for a smale conceylement proceding of negligence. 1553N. Grimalde Cicero's Offices iii. (1558) 142 Such maner of concealmentes cannot all be comprehended in the ciuil lawe. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) IV. 479 Where any fraud or concealment is practised by the vendor, by which the estate is evicted..a bill in Chancery..will lead to a better discovery of the concealment, and the circumstances attending it. 1848Arnould Mar. Insur. (1866) I. ii. ii. 520 Concealment, in the law of insurance, is the suppression of a material fact within the knowledge of the assured, which the Underwriter has not the means of knowing. 1874A. S. Taylor Man. Med. Juris. xliv. (ed. 9) 486 The concealment of pregnancy is no offence in the English Law, but the concealment of delivery or of the birth of a child is a misdemeanour..Any person tried for the murder of any child, and acquitted thereof, may be found guilty of concealment of birth.
b. esp. The holding of land against the king's rights, without a proper title. patentees or grantees of concealments: i.e. persons to whom patents or grants of concealed lands were given.
1623Act 21 Jas. I, c. 2 An act for the general quiet of the subjects against all pretences of concealment whatsoever. Ibid., [Persons]..Claiming or pretending to have any..claime..to the same [lands] by force or colour of any Letters Patents, Grants, vpon suggestion of Concealement or wrongfull detaining or not being in Charge, or defectiue Titles. Ibid., All Patentees, or Grantees of Concealements or defectiue Titles. Ibid., By reason of any Commission, or other authoritie to find out Concealements, defectiue Titles, or Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, out of charge. 1691T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. p. lxxiv, Raking for old Debts, the number of Informations, Projects upon concealments, I could not find..ever to advantage the Crown.
fig. or allusively.1613Fletcher, etc. Honest Man's Fort. v. iii, Their penance, sir, I'll undertake, so please you To grant me one concealment. a1625― Hum. Lieut. ii. i, They say she keeps an office of concealements.
2. gen. The action of concealing or keeping secret.
a1600Hooker Eccl. Pol. vi. iv. §4 Confession doth..abate the weight of men's offences, concealment doth make them heavier. 1601Shakes. Twel. N. ii. iv. 115 She neuer told her loue, But let concealment like a worme i'th budde Feede on her damaske cheeke. 1665Boyle Occas. Refl. v. iv. (1675) 309 A modest Concealment of [ones Excellencies]. 1792Anecd. W. Pitt III. xxxix. 39, I know that all concealments are vain and useless. 1861Tulloch Eng. Purit. ii. 193 He made no concealment of his opinions.
†3. Secret knowledge; a secret, a mystery. Obs.
1597Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, iii. i. 167 A worthy Gentleman, Exceeding well read, and profited in strange concealments. 1622T. Scott Belg. Pismire 47 What skils it, whether my soule departs with many concealments which might have bettered others.
4. The action of hiding anything from view.
1607Shakes. Cor. i. ix. 21, 'Twere a concealement worse then a Theft. 1745P. Thomas Jrnl. Anson's Voy. 64 He..commanded..that every Man's Chest and Hammock should be search'd to prevent Concealments. ― Ibid. 306 A general Search was made on board both Ships..for Concealments of Money, Plate, or Jewels.
b. The condition of being hidden from sight, or from recognition by disguise. Esp. in the phr. in concealment: hidden, in hiding, in a hiding-place.
1605Shakes. Lear iv. iii. 54 (Globe) Some dear cause Will in concealment wrap me up a while. 1794S. Williams Vermont 143 A superiority in situation, numbers, concealment or some other circumstance. 1802M. Edgeworth Moral T. (1816) I. 202 She has a lover..in concealment..you won't betray him. Mod. He has absconded, and is still in concealment.
c. The capacity of concealing; in pl. quasi-concr., conditions or surroundings that conceal.
1728Thomson Spring 590 (1738) The clefted tree Offers its kind concealment to a few [birds]. 1848H. Miller First Impr. v. (1857) 79 A gang of coiners were suspected..of harbouring among its concealments. 1857–8Sears Athan. 88 The concealments and envelopments of this material body. |