sealedadj.

/siːld/

Etymology: < seal v.¹ + -ed suffix¹.

a. Bearing the impression of a signet in wax (or other material), as evidence or guarantee of authenticity.

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society > communication > indication > marking > imprinting > sealing > [adjective] > sealed

sealeda1225

bulled1330

signed1647

wafered1829

a1225 Leg. Kath. 407 & sende iseelede writes wið his ahne kinering.

c1386 G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale 736 Lo, heere the lettres seled of this thing.

?c1510 tr. Newe Landes & People founde by Kynge of Portyngale sig. D Also certefye yow with oure lettres sealed.

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. i. 85 A seald compact Well ratified by lawe and heraldy.

1654 E. Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 263 Wee have had much talke in Paris upon a project of sealed paper, wherein all contracts and legall busines should be written.

1905 Daily Chron. 29 June 2/2 Spanish ‘sealed’ bonds..were better at the close.

b. Of weights and measures: Stamped with a mark affixed by a duly appointed officer as a guarantee of accuracy.

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society > communication > indication > marking > mark of quality > [adjective] > of weights or measures

sealed1522

1522 Coventry Leet Bk. 683 Ordained that all bruers & Typlers order them-selffe to sell ther ale with Sealyd Mesures soche as byn ordenyd.

1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 15^v Beame, skales w^t the waights, y^t are sealed & true.

c. figurative.

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a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) ii. xi. §4. 318 A sealed and infallible truth.

1637 S. Rutherford Lett. (1664) 111 Concluded & sealed Salvation may goe through & be ended.

1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity ii. ii. vi. 373 Those true Members and marked or sealed Souldiers of Christ.

1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity ii. ii. vi. 373 The 144 thousand sealed Servants of God.

†d. sealed earth [ < medieval Latin terra sigillata, Greek σϕραγίς, σϕραγῖτις] : a medicinal earth found in the Island of Lemnos, believed to possess antitoxic properties, sold by apothecaries in cubical blocks bearing a stamp, formerly an impression of the head of Artemis. Also any earth resembling this, in appearance or properties. Obsolete.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > mineral medicine > [noun] > medicinal earths

terra sigillata1398

bole armeniac?a1425

sealed earth1526

Lemnian earth1611

Terra Lemnia1613

Armenian bole1621

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > astringent or restringent preparations > [noun] > mineral-derived

terra sigillata1398

tuttyc1400

bole armeniac?a1425

sealed earth1526

Lemnian earth1611

Terra Lemnia1613

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > antidote > [noun] > other antidotes > mineral

terra sigillata1398

bole armeniac?a1425

sealed earth1526

Lemnian earth1611

Terra Lemnia1613

Armenian bole1621

1526 Grete Herball ccccxliv. sig. Zv/1 Sealed erthe is of grete vertue to staūche.

1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 932 Our Author takes notice of Nine sorts of sealed Earths, which he hath observed to be sold by the Drugists of London, under the Title of Terra Sigillata.

1762 P. Murdoch tr. A. F. Büsching New Syst. Geogr. V. 415 The principal of these are its good clay and sealed earth, as also its silver.

†e. sealed porter n. a porter having the sealed licence of one of the companies of porters. Obsolete.

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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > other manual or industrial workers > [noun] > porter > types of

wine-porter1580

street porter1606

tackle-house porter1606

tackle-porter1607

sealed porter1631

ticket-porter1646

tub-woman1660

keep-door1682

Suisse1763

bamboo-coolie1800

hop-porter1812

plyer1826

night porter1841

fellowship1864

hall-porter1883

mobber1892

redcap1903

badgeman1904

bummaree1954

1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes v. iii. 11 in Wks. II I know he was a Porter, And a seal'd Porter for he bore the badge On brest, I am sure.

f. Natural History. In specific names: Bearing a mark resembling a seal.

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the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > marks > [adjective] > other markings

saddled1803

sealed1803

stigmatiform1843

sagittiferous1858

triangulate1891

1803 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. IV. 474 Sealed Sparus, Sparus Sigillatus..marked on each side by a longitudinal paler stripe and a yellow-red ellipse behind each eye.

g. sealed book n. any of the printed copies of the authentic Book of Common Prayer of 1662 certified under the Great Seal and deposited as a standard in Cathedrals and Collegiate Churches. (To be distinguished from the Annexed Book, which is the MS. copy of the Book of Common Prayer annexed to the official copy of the Act of Uniformity of 1662 preserved in the House of Lords.)

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > a profound secret, mystery > [noun] > beyond comprehension

deepshipa1225

Eleusinian mysteries1644

sealed book1710

Eleusinianism1857

society > faith > artefacts > book (general) > service book (general) > [noun] > containing directions for worship > Anglican > revised 1662 edition > certified under great seal

sealed book1710

1710 Nicholls (title) A Comment on the Book of Common Prayer... The text of the whole being compared and amended according to the sealed Books.

1849 Stephens (title) The Book of Common Prayer... The text taken from the Sealed Book for the Chancery and collated with the Sealed Books for the King's Bench [etc.].

h. sealed pattern n. in British military and naval use, a pattern (e.g. of a weapon or other article of equipment) accepted by the War Office or the Admiralty.

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1850 ‘Two Mounted Sentries’ Horse Guards 70 The ‘sealed pattern’ [of cloth] provided for the British soldier, and familiarly known among the men by the euphonious cognomen of ‘bull's wool’.

1902 Words of Eyewitness 233 A useful lot, thinks Colonel Jones, but somewhat of an anxiety to his sealed-pattern soldier's mind.

i. Sealed Knot n. the name of an organization which re-enacts battles of the English Civil War for pleasure and charitable purposes.The name is taken from a secret Royalist organization of the mid-seventeenth-century dedicated to the Restoration of the Stuart line.

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society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > specific societies or organizations > [noun] > other specific associations or organizations

Tityre-tu1623

Peep o' Day Boys1780

law society1821

kongsi1839

B'nai B'rith1862

Molly Maguire1867

Kennel Club1874

Ethical Society1877

Kyrle Society1877

Molly1877

Sierra Club1891

subak1897

Workers' Educational Association1905

senior1906

W.E.A.1910

Lions Club1922

godless1927

F.P.A.a1940

Diners' Club1950

amnesty1961

Sealed Knot1971

Greenpeace1972

lions1972

Gaysoc1976

Group of Eight1977

Group of Seven1977

meeja1983

G71986

G81988

1971 Certificate of Incorporation (Registrar of Companies Eng. & Wales: Company no. 1014700) 17 June I hereby certify that The Sealed Knot Limited is this day incorporated under the Companies Acts 1948 to 1967 and that the Company is limited. Given under my hand at London the 17th June 1971.

1976 A. Price War Game i. iii. 71 There are a number of these Civil War groups—the Sealed Knot was the first one.

1978 R. Westall Devil on Road ii. 7 I'd heard about the Sealed Knot. Guys..poncing around in Cavalier gear, losing the Civil War all over again.

a. Fastened with a seal; closed in such a manner that access (to the contents) is impossible without breaking the fastening. sealed orders: written directions given to the commander of a vessel concerning the destination of a voyage, which are not to be opened until the vessel has left port. sealed verdict: a verdict delivered in a sealed packet in the absence of a judge. Also of a railway train or carriage: closed to entry or exit, or admitting restricted movement, during its journey (with allusion to Lenin's passage from Finland to Russia in 1917 in a train ‘sealed’ to prevent contact with German citizens).

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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > [adjective] > closed or shut > securely > sealed

sealeda1400

society > travel > travel by water > [noun] > sailing orders > sealed

sealed orders1872

society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > [noun] > decision of jury > types of

ignoramus1583

privy verdict1628

non liquet1656

ignoring1682

open verdict1769

sealed verdict1891

majority verdict1905

society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [adjective] > type of train

carriaged1776

steam-hauled1835

steam-operated1835

jerkwater1852

articulated1884

vestibuled1890

multiple-unit1902

air-braked1905

collision-proof1906

pull-and-push1914

push-and-pull1927

sealed1949

drive-on1954

a1400–50 Alexander 5100 Þan sendis scho to him sandismen with selid lettris.

c1450 Mirour Saluacioun (Roxb.) 2 And eke y^e seled welle [Song Sol. iv. 12]..and Balaam sterre.

1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. 4 That person mentioned by Esay, to whom when a sealed booke was deliuered [etc.].

1615 R. Cocks Diary (1883) I. 89 He thought that Capt. Speck would be content to let hym carry our sealed letters.

1857 W. A. Miller Elements Chem.: Org. (1862) 176 Berthelot found that by exposing the alcohol and the acid in sealed tubes for some hours [etc.].

1872 J. R. Lowell Dante in Wks. (1890) IV. 237 Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.

1891 S. Fiske Holiday Stories (Boston ed.) vii. 171 Judge Gedney says that you can bring in a sealed verdict without waiting for him.

1949 Radio Times 15 July 3/1 We took a sealed train to Avonmouth, a crowded troopship out into the Atlantic.

1975 M. Pearson Sealed Train vi. 90 The sealed carriage and its baggage wagon were..drawn backward toward Switzerland.

1975 M. Pearson Sealed Train vi. 94 As the Sealed Train steamed north, the Kaiser's troops were striving..to check the new Allied offensive.

1979 O. Sela Petrograd Consignment 159 Zinoviev..has suggested that they travel through Germany in a sealed carriage, without stops.

b. figurative or in figurative context; also with up. a sealed book: often used predicatively of something involved in obscurity, or beyond a person's capacity to understand.

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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > [noun] > instance of

lock1563

incomprehensibility1651

inscrutables1665

incomprehensible1678

inconceivable1706

I know not what1711

unknowable1725

unsearchable1725

indefinable1810

a sealed book1814

unknowable1816

unintelligible1838

inconceivability1851

imponderable1855

inscrutablenessa1864

unfathomability1867

unthinkable1871

closed book1913

intangible1914

imponderabilia1925

generation gap1962

1611 Bible (King James) Isa. xxix. 11 And the vision of all is become vnto you, as the wordes of a booke that is sealed. ]

1814 C. Lamb Let. 19 Sept. in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1978) III. 113 My left arm reposes on ‘Excursion’. I feel what it would be in quiet. It is now a sealed Book.

1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I xlviii. 27 This, too, was a seal'd book to little Juan.

1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes iii. 173 Nature with her truth remains to the bad, to the selfish and the pusillanimous, forever a sealed book.

1841 G. Borrow Zincali II. iii. 107 It is no longer a sealed language.

1881 A. O'Shaughnessy Songs of Worker 171 O bearer with sealed lips of all the lore Man yearns to know.

1884 W. James in Mind 9 201 No impression penetrates to the sealed-up sensibility.

1943 C. Day Lewis Word over All 17 Or a heightening At most of the sealed-up hour wherein we awaited What?

c. (See sense 2c of the verb.)

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1856 B. G. Ferris Mormons at Home 114 (Bartlett 1860) The extra wives of the Mormons are called by some of them ‘spirituals’, by others sealed ones.

d. Among the Irvingites (see * Sealingvbl. n.¹ 6 b).

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1914 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics VII. 425/1 The ‘sealed’ were not necessarily required to withdraw from the communion of other Churches.

e. sealed-off: closed so that neither access nor egress is possible.

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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > [adjective] > closed or shut > closed or blocked up

withsted1330

foreclosed1594

walled-up1826

sealed-off1926

1926 R. W. Lawson tr. G. von Hevesy & F. A. Paneth Man. Radioactivity ii. 19 A wider evacuated tube with sealed-off ends and thick walls.

1938 New Statesman 19 Feb. 277/2 One is left wondering whether the town hall has sealed-off rooms, and whether the chief officials enter by different doors.

1963 B. Fozard Instrumentation Nucl. Reactors iv. 42 For beta-particle measurements sealed-off tubes with thin end-windows can be used.

1978 R. Ludlum Holcroft Covenant iii. 40 Are you telling me that two people got off that plane, walked through sealed-off corridors into the sealed-off, guarded customs area, and vanished?

f. sealed room n. = locked-room adj. at locked adj.² Compounds 2. Also absol. in related use. (Frequently used in detective novels.)

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > other fictional narrative > [adjective] > other specific types of fictional story

metamorphosic1782

locked-room1919

sealed room1939

suspense1952

procedural1956

Boy's Own1967

1939 ‘M. Innes’ Stop Press ii. v. 286 Mr. Eliot's was distinctly not a mystery of the sealed-room type.

1944 J. D. Carr Till Death do us Part v. 52 If we have any clue to these sealed-room affairs, my guess is that there's the clue.

1971 A. Morice Death of Gay Dog xii. 135 One victim and five suspects, all together in a sealed room, as the saying goes.

g. sealed-beam adj. applied (usually attributively) to a motor-vehicle headlamp in which light source, reflector, and lens form a sealed, self-contained unit.

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > headlight > type of

sealed-beam1939

1939 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 19 Aug. 4/1 The result of three years of cooperative effort by engineers.., the invention is described in a special story to The New York Times as ‘a “sealed beam”, which at once provides greatly increased range and breadth of light with stronger intensity through its high, or “country”, beam and reduction of glare with increased illumination of the right side of the road with its low or “traffic” beam’.

1954 A. W. Judge Automobile Electr. Maintenance (ed. 3) viii. 209 In the case of recent American-type headlamps, ‘sealed-beam’ units are employed. These consist of a lens, bulb, and reflector unit built into one water- and dust-proof pre-focused unit.

1965 Economist 23 Oct. p. x/1 Lucas did not adopt sealed-beam headlights..until well after the Americans.

1972 ‘S. Abbey’ Bk. of Marina xi. 97 Sealed-beam units form, in effect, large bulbs, each with either one or two filaments, an integral reflector and a front lens.

h. sealed source n. a pellet of radioactive material in a sealed capsule, used in radio-therapy and radiography.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by radiation > [noun] > source

radium plaque1919

seed1924

radon seed1925

radium bomb1929

bomb1930

teleradium1930

telecobalt1948

sealed source1962

the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > radiography or radiology > [noun] > equipment used in > capsule of radioactive material

sealed source1962

1962 B.S.I. News Mar. 17/2 Radiography sealed-sources—pellets of radioactive material contained in sealed capsules.

1971 New Scientist 1 Apr. 26/2 The US market is estimated to be worth over $80 million a year with some..$20 million on basic radioisotopes and sealed sources.

i. Of a road: surfaced with tar macadam, etc. Cf. tarsealed adj. Chiefly Australian and New Zealand.

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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [adjective] > surfaced

sealed1938

surfaced1967

1938 Ann. Rep. Dept. Main Roads New S. Wales 1937 4 Generally, for country roads in New South Wales the sealed gravelled pavement has proved to be quite adequate.

1966 Weekly News (N.Z.) 5 Dec. 47/6 It was good to be back on the sealed highway.

1969 Northern Territory News (Darwin) (Focus '69 Suppl.) 11 (advt.) Contractors for bitumen sealed surfaces across the Territory.

1977 Weekly Times (Melbourne) 19 Jan. 63/7 (advt.) Situated on sealed road handy Frankston and Dandenong.

1979 B. L. C. Johnson Pakistan xii. 184/1 Roads of a high standard (sealed)..now total 27,152 km.

3. Of playing cards: placed face downwards.

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1908 M. W. Jones A.B.C. of Patience Gloss. 12 Sealed, cards or packets which are placed face down.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	sealed
释义	sealedadj. /siːld/ Etymology: < seal v.¹ + -ed suffix¹. 1. a. Bearing the impression of a signet in wax (or other material), as evidence or guarantee of authenticity. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > marking > imprinting > sealing > [adjective] > sealed sealeda1225 bulled1330 signed1647 wafered1829 a1225 Leg. Kath. 407 & sende iseelede writes wið his ahne kinering. c1386 G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale 736 Lo, heere the lettres seled of this thing. ?c1510 tr. Newe Landes & People founde by Kynge of Portyngale sig. D Also certefye yow with oure lettres sealed. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. i. 85 A seald compact Well ratified by lawe and heraldy. View more context for this quotation 1654 E. Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 263 Wee have had much talke in Paris upon a project of sealed paper, wherein all contracts and legall busines should be written. 1905 Daily Chron. 29 June 2/2 Spanish ‘sealed’ bonds..were better at the close. b. Of weights and measures: Stamped with a mark affixed by a duly appointed officer as a guarantee of accuracy. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > marking > mark of quality > [adjective] > of weights or measures sealed1522 1522 Coventry Leet Bk. 683 Ordained that all bruers & Typlers order them-selffe to sell ther ale with Sealyd Mesures soche as byn ordenyd. 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 15^v Beame, skales w^t the waights, y^t are sealed & true. c. figurative. ΚΠ a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) ii. xi. §4. 318 A sealed and infallible truth. 1637 S. Rutherford Lett. (1664) 111 Concluded & sealed Salvation may goe through & be ended. 1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity ii. ii. vi. 373 Those true Members and marked or sealed Souldiers of Christ. 1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity ii. ii. vi. 373 The 144 thousand sealed Servants of God. †d. sealed earth [ < medieval Latin terra sigillata, Greek σϕραγίς, σϕραγῖτις] : a medicinal earth found in the Island of Lemnos, believed to possess antitoxic properties, sold by apothecaries in cubical blocks bearing a stamp, formerly an impression of the head of Artemis. Also any earth resembling this, in appearance or properties. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > mineral medicine > [noun] > medicinal earths terra sigillata1398 bole armeniac?a1425 sealed earth1526 Lemnian earth1611 Terra Lemnia1613 Armenian bole1621 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > astringent or restringent preparations > [noun] > mineral-derived terra sigillata1398 tuttyc1400 bole armeniac?a1425 sealed earth1526 Lemnian earth1611 Terra Lemnia1613 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > antidote > [noun] > other antidotes > mineral terra sigillata1398 bole armeniac?a1425 sealed earth1526 Lemnian earth1611 Terra Lemnia1613 Armenian bole1621 1526 Grete Herball ccccxliv. sig. Zv/1 Sealed erthe is of grete vertue to staūche. 1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 932 Our Author takes notice of Nine sorts of sealed Earths, which he hath observed to be sold by the Drugists of London, under the Title of Terra Sigillata. 1762 P. Murdoch tr. A. F. Büsching New Syst. Geogr. V. 415 The principal of these are its good clay and sealed earth, as also its silver. †e. sealed porter n. a porter having the sealed licence of one of the companies of porters. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > other manual or industrial workers > [noun] > porter > types of wine-porter1580 street porter1606 tackle-house porter1606 tackle-porter1607 sealed porter1631 ticket-porter1646 tub-woman1660 keep-door1682 Suisse1763 bamboo-coolie1800 hop-porter1812 plyer1826 night porter1841 fellowship1864 hall-porter1883 mobber1892 redcap1903 badgeman1904 bummaree1954 1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes v. iii. 11 in Wks. II I know he was a Porter, And a seal'd Porter for he bore the badge On brest, I am sure. f. Natural History. In specific names: Bearing a mark resembling a seal. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > marks > [adjective] > other markings saddled1803 sealed1803 stigmatiform1843 sagittiferous1858 triangulate1891 1803 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. IV. 474 Sealed Sparus, Sparus Sigillatus..marked on each side by a longitudinal paler stripe and a yellow-red ellipse behind each eye. g. sealed book n. any of the printed copies of the authentic Book of Common Prayer of 1662 certified under the Great Seal and deposited as a standard in Cathedrals and Collegiate Churches. (To be distinguished from the Annexed Book, which is the MS. copy of the Book of Common Prayer annexed to the official copy of the Act of Uniformity of 1662 preserved in the House of Lords.) ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > a profound secret, mystery > [noun] > beyond comprehension deepshipa1225 Eleusinian mysteries1644 sealed book1710 Eleusinianism1857 society > faith > artefacts > book (general) > service book (general) > [noun] > containing directions for worship > Anglican > revised 1662 edition > certified under great seal sealed book1710 1710 Nicholls (title) A Comment on the Book of Common Prayer... The text of the whole being compared and amended according to the sealed Books. 1849 Stephens (title) The Book of Common Prayer... The text taken from the Sealed Book for the Chancery and collated with the Sealed Books for the King's Bench [etc.]. h. sealed pattern n. in British military and naval use, a pattern (e.g. of a weapon or other article of equipment) accepted by the War Office or the Admiralty. ΚΠ 1850 ‘Two Mounted Sentries’ Horse Guards 70 The ‘sealed pattern’ [of cloth] provided for the British soldier, and familiarly known among the men by the euphonious cognomen of ‘bull's wool’. 1902 Words of Eyewitness 233 A useful lot, thinks Colonel Jones, but somewhat of an anxiety to his sealed-pattern soldier's mind. i. Sealed Knot n. the name of an organization which re-enacts battles of the English Civil War for pleasure and charitable purposes.The name is taken from a secret Royalist organization of the mid-seventeenth-century dedicated to the Restoration of the Stuart line. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > specific societies or organizations > [noun] > other specific associations or organizations Tityre-tu1623 Peep o' Day Boys1780 law society1821 kongsi1839 B'nai B'rith1862 Molly Maguire1867 Kennel Club1874 Ethical Society1877 Kyrle Society1877 Molly1877 Sierra Club1891 subak1897 Workers' Educational Association1905 senior1906 W.E.A.1910 Lions Club1922 godless1927 F.P.A.a1940 Diners' Club1950 amnesty1961 Sealed Knot1971 Greenpeace1972 lions1972 Gaysoc1976 Group of Eight1977 Group of Seven1977 meeja1983 G71986 G81988 1971 Certificate of Incorporation (Registrar of Companies Eng. & Wales: Company no. 1014700) 17 June I hereby certify that The Sealed Knot Limited is this day incorporated under the Companies Acts 1948 to 1967 and that the Company is limited. Given under my hand at London the 17th June 1971. 1976 A. Price War Game i. iii. 71 There are a number of these Civil War groups—the Sealed Knot was the first one. 1978 R. Westall Devil on Road ii. 7 I'd heard about the Sealed Knot. Guys..poncing around in Cavalier gear, losing the Civil War all over again. 2. a. Fastened with a seal; closed in such a manner that access (to the contents) is impossible without breaking the fastening. sealed orders: written directions given to the commander of a vessel concerning the destination of a voyage, which are not to be opened until the vessel has left port. sealed verdict: a verdict delivered in a sealed packet in the absence of a judge. Also of a railway train or carriage: closed to entry or exit, or admitting restricted movement, during its journey (with allusion to Lenin's passage from Finland to Russia in 1917 in a train ‘sealed’ to prevent contact with German citizens). ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > [adjective] > closed or shut > securely > sealed sealeda1400 society > travel > travel by water > [noun] > sailing orders > sealed sealed orders1872 society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > [noun] > decision of jury > types of ignoramus1583 privy verdict1628 non liquet1656 ignoring1682 open verdict1769 sealed verdict1891 majority verdict1905 society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [adjective] > type of train carriaged1776 steam-hauled1835 steam-operated1835 jerkwater1852 articulated1884 vestibuled1890 multiple-unit1902 air-braked1905 collision-proof1906 pull-and-push1914 push-and-pull1927 sealed1949 drive-on1954 a1400–50 Alexander 5100 Þan sendis scho to him sandismen with selid lettris. c1450 Mirour Saluacioun (Roxb.) 2 And eke y^e seled welle [Song Sol. iv. 12]..and Balaam sterre. 1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. 4 That person mentioned by Esay, to whom when a sealed booke was deliuered [etc.]. 1615 R. Cocks Diary (1883) I. 89 He thought that Capt. Speck would be content to let hym carry our sealed letters. 1857 W. A. Miller Elements Chem.: Org. (1862) 176 Berthelot found that by exposing the alcohol and the acid in sealed tubes for some hours [etc.]. 1872 J. R. Lowell Dante in Wks. (1890) IV. 237 Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean. 1891 S. Fiske Holiday Stories (Boston ed.) vii. 171 Judge Gedney says that you can bring in a sealed verdict without waiting for him. 1949 Radio Times 15 July 3/1 We took a sealed train to Avonmouth, a crowded troopship out into the Atlantic. 1975 M. Pearson Sealed Train vi. 90 The sealed carriage and its baggage wagon were..drawn backward toward Switzerland. 1975 M. Pearson Sealed Train vi. 94 As the Sealed Train steamed north, the Kaiser's troops were striving..to check the new Allied offensive. 1979 O. Sela Petrograd Consignment 159 Zinoviev..has suggested that they travel through Germany in a sealed carriage, without stops. b. figurative or in figurative context; also with up. a sealed book: often used predicatively of something involved in obscurity, or beyond a person's capacity to understand. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > [noun] > instance of lock1563 incomprehensibility1651 inscrutables1665 incomprehensible1678 inconceivable1706 I know not what1711 unknowable1725 unsearchable1725 indefinable1810 a sealed book1814 unknowable1816 unintelligible1838 inconceivability1851 imponderable1855 inscrutablenessa1864 unfathomability1867 unthinkable1871 closed book1913 intangible1914 imponderabilia1925 generation gap1962 1611 Bible (King James) Isa. xxix. 11 And the vision of all is become vnto you, as the wordes of a booke that is sealed. View more context for this quotation] 1814 C. Lamb Let. 19 Sept. in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1978) III. 113 My left arm reposes on ‘Excursion’. I feel what it would be in quiet. It is now a sealed Book. 1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I xlviii. 27 This, too, was a seal'd book to little Juan. 1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes iii. 173 Nature with her truth remains to the bad, to the selfish and the pusillanimous, forever a sealed book. 1841 G. Borrow Zincali II. iii. 107 It is no longer a sealed language. 1881 A. O'Shaughnessy Songs of Worker 171 O bearer with sealed lips of all the lore Man yearns to know. 1884 W. James in Mind 9 201 No impression penetrates to the sealed-up sensibility. 1943 C. Day Lewis Word over All 17 Or a heightening At most of the sealed-up hour wherein we awaited What? c. (See sense 2c of the verb.) ΚΠ 1856 B. G. Ferris Mormons at Home 114 (Bartlett 1860) The extra wives of the Mormons are called by some of them ‘spirituals’, by others sealed ones. d. Among the Irvingites (see * Sealingvbl. n.¹ 6 b). ΚΠ 1914 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics VII. 425/1 The ‘sealed’ were not necessarily required to withdraw from the communion of other Churches. e. sealed-off: closed so that neither access nor egress is possible. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > [adjective] > closed or shut > closed or blocked up withsted1330 foreclosed1594 walled-up1826 sealed-off1926 1926 R. W. Lawson tr. G. von Hevesy & F. A. Paneth Man. Radioactivity ii. 19 A wider evacuated tube with sealed-off ends and thick walls. 1938 New Statesman 19 Feb. 277/2 One is left wondering whether the town hall has sealed-off rooms, and whether the chief officials enter by different doors. 1963 B. Fozard Instrumentation Nucl. Reactors iv. 42 For beta-particle measurements sealed-off tubes with thin end-windows can be used. 1978 R. Ludlum Holcroft Covenant iii. 40 Are you telling me that two people got off that plane, walked through sealed-off corridors into the sealed-off, guarded customs area, and vanished? f. sealed room n. = locked-room adj. at locked adj.² Compounds 2. Also absol. in related use. (Frequently used in detective novels.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > other fictional narrative > [adjective] > other specific types of fictional story metamorphosic1782 locked-room1919 sealed room1939 suspense1952 procedural1956 Boy's Own1967 1939 ‘M. Innes’ Stop Press ii. v. 286 Mr. Eliot's was distinctly not a mystery of the sealed-room type. 1944 J. D. Carr Till Death do us Part v. 52 If we have any clue to these sealed-room affairs, my guess is that there's the clue. 1971 A. Morice Death of Gay Dog xii. 135 One victim and five suspects, all together in a sealed room, as the saying goes. g. sealed-beam adj. applied (usually attributively) to a motor-vehicle headlamp in which light source, reflector, and lens form a sealed, self-contained unit. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > headlight > type of sealed-beam1939 1939 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 19 Aug. 4/1 The result of three years of cooperative effort by engineers.., the invention is described in a special story to The New York Times as ‘a “sealed beam”, which at once provides greatly increased range and breadth of light with stronger intensity through its high, or “country”, beam and reduction of glare with increased illumination of the right side of the road with its low or “traffic” beam’. 1954 A. W. Judge Automobile Electr. Maintenance (ed. 3) viii. 209 In the case of recent American-type headlamps, ‘sealed-beam’ units are employed. These consist of a lens, bulb, and reflector unit built into one water- and dust-proof pre-focused unit. 1965 Economist 23 Oct. p. x/1 Lucas did not adopt sealed-beam headlights..until well after the Americans. 1972 ‘S. Abbey’ Bk. of Marina xi. 97 Sealed-beam units form, in effect, large bulbs, each with either one or two filaments, an integral reflector and a front lens. h. sealed source n. a pellet of radioactive material in a sealed capsule, used in radio-therapy and radiography. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by radiation > [noun] > source radium plaque1919 seed1924 radon seed1925 radium bomb1929 bomb1930 teleradium1930 telecobalt1948 sealed source1962 the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > radiography or radiology > [noun] > equipment used in > capsule of radioactive material sealed source1962 1962 B.S.I. News Mar. 17/2 Radiography sealed-sources—pellets of radioactive material contained in sealed capsules. 1971 New Scientist 1 Apr. 26/2 The US market is estimated to be worth over $80 million a year with some..$20 million on basic radioisotopes and sealed sources. i. Of a road: surfaced with tar macadam, etc. Cf. tarsealed adj. Chiefly Australian and New Zealand. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [adjective] > surfaced sealed1938 surfaced1967 1938 Ann. Rep. Dept. Main Roads New S. Wales 1937 4 Generally, for country roads in New South Wales the sealed gravelled pavement has proved to be quite adequate. 1966 Weekly News (N.Z.) 5 Dec. 47/6 It was good to be back on the sealed highway. 1969 Northern Territory News (Darwin) (Focus '69 Suppl.) 11 (advt.) Contractors for bitumen sealed surfaces across the Territory. 1977 Weekly Times (Melbourne) 19 Jan. 63/7 (advt.) Situated on sealed road handy Frankston and Dandenong. 1979 B. L. C. Johnson Pakistan xii. 184/1 Roads of a high standard (sealed)..now total 27,152 km. 3. Of playing cards: placed face downwards. ΚΠ 1908 M. W. Jones A.B.C. of Patience Gloss. 12 Sealed, cards or packets which are placed face down. 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