Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Seclude

Seclude , transitive verb

[Latin secludere, seclusum; pref. se- aside + claudere to shut. See Close, transitive verb]

1.
To shut up apart from others; to withdraw into, or place in, solitude; to separate from society or intercourse with others.
Let Eastern tyrants from the light of heaven Seclude their bosom slaves. — Thomson
2.
To shut or keep out; to exclude. [Obsolete] — Evelyn