Confine \Con"fine\ (? or ?); 277), v. i.
To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to
touch; -- followed by on or with. [Obs.]
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Where your gloomy bounds
Confine with heaven. --Milton.
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Bewixt heaven and earth and skies there stands a place.
Confining on all three. --Dryden.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Confine \Con*fine"\ (k[o^]n*f[imac]n"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Confined; p. pr. & vb. n. Confining.] [F. confiner to
border upon, LL. confinare to set bounds to; con- + finis
boundary, end. See Final, Finish.]
To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound;
to shut up; to inclose; to keep close.
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Now let not nature's hand
Keep the wild flood confined! let order die! --Shak.
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He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and
the slavery of rhyme. --Dryden.
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To be confined, to be in childbed.
Syn: To bound; limit; restrain; imprison; immure; inclose;
circumscribe; restrict.
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Confine \Con"fine\, n.
1. Common boundary; border; limit; -- used chiefly in the
plural.
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Events that came to pass within the confines of
Judea. --Locke.
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And now in little space
The confines met of empyrean heaven,
And of this world. --Milton.
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On the confines of the city and the Temple.
--Macaulay.
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2. Apartment; place of restraint; prison. [Obs.]
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Confines, wards, and dungeons. --Shak.
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The extravagant and erring spirit hies
To his confine. --Shak.
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confine
v 1: restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a
day" [syn: limit, circumscribe]
2: place limits on (extent or access); "restrict the use of
this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your
friends" [syn: restrict, restrain, trammel, limit,
bound, throttle]
3: prevent from leaving or from being removed
4: close in or confine [syn: enclose, hold in]
5: deprive of freedom; take into confinement [syn: detain]
[ant: free]
6: to close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement;
"This holds the local until the express passengers change
trains"; "About a dozen animals were held inside the
stockade"; "The illegal immigrants were held at a
detention center"; "The terrorists held the journalists
for ransom" [syn: restrain, hold]
WordNet (r) 2.0
192 Moby Thesaurus words for "confine":
arena, arrest, bar, bastille, be into, be strong in, block,
border line, bottle up, bound, boundary, boundary condition,
boundary line, bounds, bourn, box, box in, box up, break boundary,
breakoff point, cabin, cage, casket, ceiling, check, cincture,
circumference, circumscribe, circumscription, cloister, close,
closet, coffin, compass, condition, constrain, constrict, contain,
container, contract, coop, coop in, coop up, copyright, cork up,
court, courtyard, cramp, crib, curtilage, cutoff, cutoff point,
deadline, delay, delimit, delimitate, delimitation,
delimited field, detain, determinant, dimensions, diminish,
discipline, division line, drag, draw in, draw the line, encage,
encase, enclave, enclose, enclosure, end, entomb, extent,
extremity, feature, fence in, field, finish, floor, frontier,
go in, go in for, ground, hedge, hedge about, hem, hem in,
high-water mark, hinder, hold, hold back, hold in custody,
hold in restraint, hold up, immure, impede, impound, incarcerate,
inhibit, interface, intern, jail, jug, keep back,
keep from spreading, keep in, keep in custody, keep in detention,
keep within bounds, lag, limen, limit, limitation, limiting factor,
limits, line, line of demarcation, list, localize, low-water mark,
lower limit, major in, make late, march, mark, mete, mew, mew up,
minor in, moderate, narrow, obstruct, orbit, pale, paling, park,
patent, pen, pen up, periphery, pound, precincts, prison, purlieus,
pursue, purview, quad, quadrangle, qualify, quod, radius, rail in,
reach, register, restrain, restrict, retard, scant, scope, seal up,
shackle, shut in, shut up, slacken, slow down, snape, specialize,
specialize in, square, start, starting line, starting point, stay,
stint, stop, straiten, sweep, taper, target date, term,
terminal date, terminus, theater, threshold, tighten,
time allotment, toft, upper limit, wall in, yard
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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