Con"fine (?), n.
1. Common boundary; border; limit; -- used chiefly in the plural.
Events that came to
pass within the confines of Judea.
Locke.
And now in little
space
The confines
met of empyrean heaven,
And of this world.
Milton.
On the
confines of the city and the
Temple.
Macaulay.
2. Apartment; place of restraint; prison.
[Obs.]
Confines, wards,
and dungeons.
Shak.
The extravagant and erring spirit hies
To his confine.
Shak.
Con"fine (? or &?;); 277), v. i. To have a common boundary; to border; to
lie contiguous; to touch; -- followed by on or
with. [Obs.]
Where your gloomy bounds
Confine with heaven.
Milton.
Bewixt heaven and earth and
skies there stands a place.
Confining on all three.
Dryden.
Con*fine" (?), 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.
Now let not nature's
hand
Keep the wild flood confined! let order die!
Shak.
He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme.
Dryden.
To be confined, to be in childbed.
Syn. -- To bound; limit; restrain; imprison; immure; inclose; circumscribe; restrict.
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