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Definition of Self-enclosed
1. Adjective. Of self-imposed enclosure or confinement. "A self-enclosed Jewish cosmos"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-enclosed
Literary usage of Self-enclosed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1912)
"The adoption of a coil with porcelain supports and self-enclosed in a case made
up of fireproof and insulating materials gives a greater factor of safety ..."
2. The Gentleman's House: Or, How to Plan English Residences, from the by Robert Kerr (1865)
"The whole suite of rooms ought obviously to be self-enclosed. A still better
arrangement, in cases where there is a private Family-Bedchamber-Suite, ..."
3. Atelier Kempe Thill: New Prototypes for a Global Society = Neue Prototypen ...by Atelier Kempe Thill by Atelier Kempe Thill (2005)
"This self-enclosed space created an autonomous world as far as possible, appending
a fully-fledged dimension while endowing it with an emphatic core. ..."
4. Human Nature and Conduct: An Introduction to Social Psychology by John Dewey (1922)
"They too are not things self-enclosed to be known by introspection, as objects
were once supposed to be known by rational in- ..."
5. Human Nature and Conduct: An Introduction to Social Psychology by John Dewey (1922)
"They too are not things self-enclosed to be known by introspection, as objects
were once supposed to be known by rational in- ..."
6. The Ethical Aspect of Lotze's Metaphysics by Vida Frank Moore (1901)
"There is no duality or plurality at all, but only unity ; for . . . the essence
of being consists in a self-enclosed unity." Now "if being is encompassed by ..."
7. Philosophy of the Unconscious by Eduard von Hartmann (1893)
"Since the self-enclosed IDEA would never have reason for going out of itself,
... Whilst the Idea is the measured, self-enclosed, that is the measureless, ..."
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