Lexicographical Neighbors of Encloser
Literary usage of Encloser
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Words and Their Uses, Past and Present: A Study of the English Language by Richard Grant White (1882)
"They are, to be sure, of Latin origin, but remotely ; they came to us directly
from the French enquirer, encloser, and en- dosser." There is, no doubt, ..."
2. Popular Lectures and Addresses by William Thomson Kelvin (1894)
"Of course, this impermeable encloser is not realisable, but it is both a scientific
and a practical consideration to think what might be done if we had an ..."
3. The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English by Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1905)
"... no doubt the encloser only is liable ; but the CHIEF JUSTICE cannot have meant
to say that, as between the public and the parish, the act of the ..."
4. Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are ...by John Jamieson, John Johnstone by John Jamieson, John Johnstone (1867)
"There is, no doubt, a verb endosser, but who ever heard of such monstrosities as
enquirer and encloser? Only writers who, in their ignorance of French and ..."
5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law by Great Britain Bail Court (1866)
"As between the party who has enclosed and the parish, no doubt the encloser only
is liable; but the Chief Justice cannot have meant to say that, ..."
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