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sealed

/siːld/ adjective B2
  1. Closed by a seal (something to prevent leakage).
  2. Preventing entrance.
  3. Of a road: having an asphalt or macadamised surface.
  4. Not subclassable; from which one cannot inherit.
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“Good,” said he; “it was time,”—and he sealed his will with three seals.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 906 · C1
When those packets were sealed up, Jonas Oldacre got McFarlane to secure one of the seals by putting his thumb upon the soft wax.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 64 · C1
The papers had been made up into sealed envelopes, one or two of which had been opened by the police.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 52 · C1
In this I fancy that in any case he made a miscalculation, and that, if we had not been there, his doom would none the less have been sealed.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 216 · C1

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