Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Closeting"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Closet \Clos"et\, v. t. [imp. & p. pr. & vb. n. {Closeting}.]
1. To shut up in, or as in, a closet; to conceal. [R.]
Bedlam's closeted and handcuffed charge. --Cowper.
2. To make into a closet for a secret interview.
He was to call a new legislature, to closet its
members. --Bancroft.
He had been closeted with De Quadra. --Froude.
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