I. To shut up separately, to keep separate; orig. belonging to household lang.: “dispares disclusos habere pisces,” Varr. R. R. 3, 17, 4.—
II. With the notion of dis predominant, to keep apart, to separate, divide: “pares cum paribus jungi res, et discludere mundum,” Lucr. 5, 438; “so of the act of creation, imitated by Vergil: discludere Nerea ponto,” to separate, cut off, Verg. E. 6, 35: “paludibus mons erat ab reliquis disclusus,” Varr. L. L. 5, § 43 Müll.; cf.: “mons Cevenna, qui Arvernos ab Helviis discludit,” Caes. B. G. 7, 8, 2: “ossibus ac nervis disclusis,” Lucr. 3, 171; cf.: “turres (with disturbare domos),” id. 6, 240: “quibus (sc. tignis) disclusis atque in contrariam partem revinctis,” kept asunder, kept at the proper distance apart, Caes. B. G. 4, 17, 7: “ut restis, ad ingluviem adstricta, spiritus officia discluderet,” i. e. might prevent, choke off, App. M. 1, p. 109, 27.—
B. Of abstr. objects: “Plato iram et cupiditatem locis disclusit: iram in pectore, cupiditatem subter praecordia locavit,” Cic. Tusc. 1, 10, 20: “quae semotae a mente et disclusae,” id. ib. 1, 33, 80: “morsus roboris,” to part, to open, Verg. A. 12, 782.
